Blogging software

Steve Giliard has an interesting post up that talks in part about how certain advances in software allowed blogging to become a mass phenomenon:

Blogging software solved two formerly expensive problems: one, CMS (content management systems), because the blog is its own archive, two user interface, since blogging software handles coding and content creation in one shot.

What used to take hours to update now takes minutes, and the actual code of the site doesn't have to be modified daily. When you placed an article in an old website, unless you had access to a very expensive CMS, the code on the page would be changed, because the article would have to be slotted into whatever table or space you had.

Now, anyone can slot articles into a pre designed format. Even art can be added at will without having a designer plop in a shot. The actual writer can go to a database and slot it in to their post. ...

What blogs did was lower the cost of content not only in terms of production, but creation. It is easier for someone to post to a blog from a laptop, a PDA or blackberry generated e-mail than it was to use the old CMS which often required a remote network login. Which means that people have a lot more mobility now and that makes blogging a lot easier, which makes content production easier, which means it can go up quicker. That gives blogs a timeliness which couldn't happen during the dotcom era.

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