David Emery OnlinePersonal Content Publishing
20 September 2006
Cross posted from the Culture Blog
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Yes, the acronym is PCP – we may have to think of something better.
That’s what Anthology is about, though – allowing you (yes, you! Errm, except you there. Not you. Everyone else.) to publish online your content. Your content, of course, comes in all sorts of different shapes and sizes – some people may want to publish photos, some people want to have a blog, some people want to publish news, album details and tour dates.
Anthology will do all of that.
Oh yes!
Currently, the solutions for this problem of getting your “stuff” online are not very nice (in the same way cougars aren’t*), and if you want to do anything other then a blog they’re really not very nice (at all). It’s very much like trying to put a square peg in a round hole – possible with a large hammer, but not very practical in the long term.
I’ve been using Textpattern a lot recently to solve exactly this kind of problem, and I think currently it’s the best solution out there. It’s perfectly possible with Textpattern is post several different types of content, and construct things like photo galleries and event calendars, but anything more really starts to get very complicated, very quickly. The interface is also a little odd round the edges – it seems as though “normal” people don’t really get certain aspects of the default Textpattern interface, and when you start using in odd ways the problem is only exasperated.
Jeff Croft has a very interesting post on this very subject, and he completely hits the nail on the head; we need a way of managing our different types of content – with complete customisability – and their just isn’t a good solution at the moment.
Without a hint of smug-ish-ness, I can quite confidently say that Anthology will solve all that.
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* Unless you face your fears, then they’re quite personable. See Talladega Nights if you don’t understand