News Portals as CMS

News Portals as Content Management Systems.

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News Portals have several characteristics that make them a CMS. And they are very important, because arguably more content is being managed in weblogs than all the content in more standard CM systems.

They separate content from presentation (layout). This is a major time saver when the blog needs to be redesigned. Change the template, and hundreds of pages change together.
They use templates and feed content objects into the templates. However, they do not have a WYSIWYG template editor.
They use RSS aggregation of feeds and syndication of stories. See Trackback and Pingback.
They have WYSIWYG editors.
They can have multiple authors (team blogs), but rarely have any workflow.
There has been some effort toward a BlogML to facilitate semantic markup with XML, but that has largely failed.
There is a Blogger API that allows independent client tools to post to various blogs.