Content management systems have long been of interest to me. It seems as though
the problem is never 100% solved. There are a lot of big (i.e. expensive and
difficult to implement) enterprise CMS software products out there but IMO these
solutions fail by either providing poor architecture and/or being excessively
intrusive on the content development process. The CMS should work for you;
you shouldn't have to work around the CMS.

These are slides from a talk I delivered to the O'Reilly Open Source Conference
in San Diego in July 2000. At the time I was managing the software development
and network operations at Salon.com. The effort that followed this talk eventually
was realized as Bricolage.

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