Ellingtoncms.com - Publish Your Own Online Media Site

Ellington probably isn't going to make the traditional newspaper sources happy, as they are already losing their core audience to the internet. And now along comes Ellington. Ellington aims to empower online media publishers by providing open source software that makes it easy to create, organize and publish online content. Started after building an online news media site, the creators wanted to offer a program with content-management tools and development platforms that allow anyone to publish online. Power to the people! The site offers packages based on features tailored for the entertainment or news categories, or a suite package with all features, all using market-based pricing.

"Featuring rich metadata, clean separation of content and presentation and an elegant web-based interface, Ellington makes it easier than ever for you to create, organize and publish your content online.

Ellington handles all kinds of content — including stories, blogs, user comments, polls, entertainment listings, photos, audio, video, static HTML pages, and much more.

And because Ellington's state-of-the-art template system is a clean bridge between data and presentation, multiple sites can share content but still look vastly different.

From small newspapers and niche publications to widespread publication networks, Ellington's streamlined content-management tools and powerful development platform give you everything you need to make your content come alive on the Web."

The news media is transforming overnight, and more and more online news media sites are competing successfully with the big boys (and often being bought out by them). This is a great software program to make it easy for anyone to start making noise.

Do enough people want to publish media sites online that costs money to host? Who are they targeting to in marketing this site? They have a decent client base with happy customers (based on testimonials, which i applaud), but is it enough to make a profit?