[thelist] Blog vs CMS?

Xiaosong Li xli at unitec.ac.nz
Fri Mar 21 21:51:01 CDT 2008


A CMS is typically a piece of software.

A blog is a type of website that features content in the form of
*posts* that may or may not allow visitors to comment.

I strongly support the above statements.

Dr. Xiaosong Li
Lecturer
School of Computing & Information Technology
Unitec New Zealand
Phone + 64 9  815 4321 x 6019
Fax + 64 9 815 4338
Room 3003, Building 183

>>> "Randal Rust" <randalrust at gmail.com> 20/03/2008 5:59 a.m. >>>
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Frank <lists at frankmarion.com> wrote:

>  What exactly is the difference between a CMS and a blog?

I'd like to put a different spin on what others have said.

A CMS is typically a piece of software.

A blog is a type of website that features content in the form of
*posts* that may or may not allow visitors to comment.

A CMS may very easily contain a blogging module, a news module and an
articles module.

The market niche for Wordpress, Movable Type, etc. are in fact,
content management systems. They just focus on features that you
typically find on a blog site.

-- 
Randal Rust
R.Squared Communications
www.r2communications.com 
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