👓 In the Shadow of the CMS | The Nation

Read In the Shadow of the CMS by Kyle Chayka (The Nation)

How content-management systems will shape the future of media businesses big and small.

With all these self-made CMSes for distributing journalism, why not go a half step further and create a full-on network of hosted and managed IndieWeb websites? These could be for both their journalists to use (the way many do with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) in their research as well as for their own users which could also incidentally use them to interact with the paper itself as well as their surrounding communities?

For a low cost per month, it could be an interesting side business, or even be bundled with paid subscriptions?