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by David Heinemeier Hansson.
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As t approaches zero, people will realize that many types of software are non-sensical in their generalized form. I believe the time has come to mark a date in the not too distant future for celebrating the death of the general-purpose content management system.
In many ways, I believe it was always a pipe dream. Sort of like the high-level components that the industry has always sought. Or model-driven architecture/CASE tools. I believe all these fantasies can be summarized in a correlation of price and delusion:
The more expensive it is to create fresh software, the more appealing the mirage of generalization will appear.
And I think we've already seen the rise of its replacements for smaller segments of generalities. The blog is a much more specialized, much better alternative for a large group of problems that where previously considered content management. The same for the wiki.
We need even more narrow tools. While it'll never reach zero, t is aiming enough in that direction to expose the fraud of ultimate generalization. So don't accept the label of content. Nobody produces content. People write reviews, people write news, people write articles, people exhibits photos.
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