Structured Content: What’s in it for Writers? takes a look at those pesky writers and their relation to Content Management Systems.

Here’s some of the good stuff:

• Writers will use any tool that makes their task easier
• Very few people are willing to change the way they work in order to make somebody else’s life easier
• Writers usually lack the context to understand the structures they are asked to produce
• Some content contributors will be willing to create structured information and other will not

I really need to take a look at HTML Tidy again. I’d like to use it as a CMS add-on, to clean up incoming content…

Yesterday we mentioned SQLite: An Embeddable SQL Database Engine. Here’s today’s thought: Could you take Movable Type (or your CMS of choice) and make it use SQLite instead of MySQL? You could (in theory) then do all the SQL things without access to a MySQL database… It’s nothing I want to attempt to implement, but feel free to take the idea and run with it.