Thanks for your thoughts. I agree about silver bullets, I don’t believe in them.

I do think there is room for a new service that is modular in design that does not necessarily restrict the creativity. Look at WordPress, no matter what you say about it, and it’s limitations, you have to admit that the level of personalization available with WP is unprecedented in the space. The same can be done in other platforms.

-J

I actually think that the modular nature of services as they exist are more advantageous than having everything under one roof. The Digital Railroad debacle taught me that.

Your post is food for thought. I’ll be thinking about it more over the weekend.

I’m not tech savy, so integration is such a key. Things are changing so fast, and I get stuck wasting a lot of time trying to juggle all of the different places to put my time and energy. – I still get head swoons thinking about how we did business before email and the internet – now look at how developed the media landscape has become, and getting more & more tangled like a herd of angry octopii.

Thanks for the comment. I am a systems architect by profession and I have built comparable systems for other industries, so I know this is doable. Been wanting to do it for a few years now, but have too many fires going on.

In my opinion “Enhancing” a system like Wordpress is exactly the wrong angle to take, Wordpress is “post” centric, we need something that is “asset” centric, with all supporting output modules. The system also needs to be smart about these assets and be able to do transformations on these assets, that is why a generic asset management system just won’t do.

Wordpress offers a good example of a very flexible templating system, specially with the recent additions of the widgets.

-J