- In Erin Kissane's An Event Apart talk, she talked "about the principles of craft and how they apply to creating systems that support effective content startegy." Here's Luke Wroblewski's notes:
- LukeW | An Event Apart: The Crafts in our SystemsIn her presentation at An Event Apart in Washington DC 2012 Erin Kissane talked about the principles of craft and how they apply to creat...
- So, I am asking for a better system. What would that better system look like? Again …
- I am adding the discussion as it unfolds:
@mirandamulligan you need just web addressable content and a metadata management system that can decorate it.- @mirandamulligan a CMS that pre-defines what content should be, will always fail
- @mirandamulligan the idea is that the content can be anything and on the web, all you need to manage is metadata, navigation and embedding
- @mirandamulligan the C in CMS should be 'Curation' and not 'Content,' you need a Curation Management System over any web reachable content
@mirandamulligan @gridinoc um, flexibility is directly disproportional of functionality. You give one up when you incr. another- @mirandamulligan @gridinoc ultimately, the most flexible CMS has no features and vice-versa, more powerful the CMS, less flexible it is.
- @mirandamulligan it's a system design law: any feature introduces an assumption & limits flexibility. So you have to compromise. @gridinoc
- @mirandamulligan @gridinoc case in point: Jekyll (github.com/mojombo/jekyll) is way less design-limiting than WP or Drupal but has few features.
- @inadarei @mirandamulligan yup, agree; but I would like to disconnect as much as possible the content from the management bit...
- @mirandamulligan @gridinoc you can try to build for edge cases and mimic flexibility, but that easily leads to uber-complexity and bloat.
- @gridinoc disconnecting Editorial UI from user presentation is an excellent approach which also increases security. @mirandamulligan
- @gotoplanb @mirandamulligan imagine a @storify where you can customise how you manage what you refer to, like having your own embed.ly
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