Hi Aaron.

I definitely agree. It’s the same discussion we have about Google Sites or Wikispaces. When my students start up their website/digital portfolio, it’s a discussion about WordPress, Weebly, or Wix. It depends on their amount of time, savvy, and their ultimate vision of their site.

I’m currently having that discussion as I examine WordPress, Drupal, Joomla.

I think there are specific affordances for each platform and tool. I like Known as it’ll offer me a drop dead simple publishing platform. That being said, I could run WordPress…and install something minimal like a Ghost theme. 🙂

I also think you may be correct in the assumption that we don’t always need to archive everything. I keep that paper trail mainly to test out things and show my work online. But, not everyone sees the need to create that backup of everything. 🙂