Microcontent Management with Syncato (O'Reilly)

[Posted March 24, 2004 by cook]

Kimbro Staken talks about Syncato, an XML-based web logging system. "In the past few years there's been a surge in popularity for what has become known as blogging. The weblog (or "blog") is an online journal of links and information. It seems everyone has one now. I've written a blog for several years now using Movable Type to manage it. Unfortunately, I've always been bothered by the very rigid perspective provided by most weblog management systems. Most of these systems are based on a relational database system and have a limited number of post types that you can add. I wanted something that would be much more flexible and allow you to define an arbitrary level of structure to the content you add to your site. This lead me to the development of the system that is now known as Syncato."