Hi pugdog,
I join you in your rant about blogs which seems to be thriving on more of a fashion type hype than any real technological innovation. I worked with a system called StoryServer from Vignette that is CMS type system but when I was started on it, it lacked a lot of workflow capacity that was a goldmine (while this was lacking) for web agencies et al. since it was difficult to imagine using it without a workflow system for newspapers. Guardian unlimited (UK) Le Monde (FR) and the Wall Street Journal (US) use this at the moment. Although I don’t think GT is holding back on key functions deliberately it would be nice to see a) group management, on top of existing user management available and b) workflow capacity which would be a great boost for the product and provide an endless amount of new function ideas for plug-in developers. I do feel that these are core functions. Seeing them developed in a sound and secure way by GT would be great and would then provide developers from GT and the plug-in community with a great basis to work from.
I’m not sure how your (future?) Blog system works, as I told you I had started working on specifications with GT prior to your announcement for a Blog system that only required a few mods since as you said a lot of blog functionality is already present in Links compared to present blog systems on the market. In my specs I had knocked out requirements for trackback and ping which friends of my that have blogs say they and their readers never use...
I think that the fact companies can envisage creating a blog system so tightly linked to the product is in an indication of how impressive Links and the code it’s built on really are…
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I join you in your rant about blogs which seems to be thriving on more of a fashion type hype than any real technological innovation. I worked with a system called StoryServer from Vignette that is CMS type system but when I was started on it, it lacked a lot of workflow capacity that was a goldmine (while this was lacking) for web agencies et al. since it was difficult to imagine using it without a workflow system for newspapers. Guardian unlimited (UK) Le Monde (FR) and the Wall Street Journal (US) use this at the moment. Although I don’t think GT is holding back on key functions deliberately it would be nice to see a) group management, on top of existing user management available and b) workflow capacity which would be a great boost for the product and provide an endless amount of new function ideas for plug-in developers. I do feel that these are core functions. Seeing them developed in a sound and secure way by GT would be great and would then provide developers from GT and the plug-in community with a great basis to work from.
I’m not sure how your (future?) Blog system works, as I told you I had started working on specifications with GT prior to your announcement for a Blog system that only required a few mods since as you said a lot of blog functionality is already present in Links compared to present blog systems on the market. In my specs I had knocked out requirements for trackback and ping which friends of my that have blogs say they and their readers never use...
I think that the fact companies can envisage creating a blog system so tightly linked to the product is in an indication of how impressive Links and the code it’s built on really are…
Significant Media
