Dan Gillmor moves to Drupal: Bayosphere
kbahey - May 15, 2005 - 17:24
Dan Gillmor is a prominent journalist, author and commentator on technology in the San Francisco Bay Area (Silicon Valley), known for his technology articles in the San Jose Mercury. He recently left the San Jose Mercury to start a "grassroots journalism project", and it is finally here: it is called the Bayosphere and is powered by Drupal. Jay Campbell, Dan's Technologist, writes about why they chose Drupal.
Chris Messina (a.k.a factoryjoe) has spend long hours with Dan to convince him to use Drupal. Thanks Chris.
Sweet...!
This is excellent news -- and I spent so much time convincing him that I didn't even know it was coming! Oh well, here's the furthering the adoption of Drupal is all worthy OS/PC projects!
I think the adoption of
I think the adoption of drupal by renowned persons, organizations and projects, have deeply contributed to the spread of drupal.
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Thanks!
Thank you FactoryJoe and the whole Drupal community for constant improvements to this kick-ass platform.
thanks chris
unrelated to this news item in a narrow way but related to Famous People choosing drupal, moby.com (yes, that moby) is using drupal for his site. Anyone here that has been working on that site / artists wants to comment?
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groets
bertb
watch the druplicon conquer the world.
... because everyone seems to forget to remove or replace the favicon, our Holy Icon of Speed and Grace [tm] is slowly taking over the world.
But, serious , I beleive the people who roll out big sites like Gillmor's, should be carefull about the details; like the favicon. What about a general checklist in our best practices section?
But besides that little thing, it is great news to hear that such heavy weight personalities actually use our product.
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we read it
At BT (http://www.blufftontoday.com/), we've been reading as much documentation as we can.
And we still love the platform! The documentation is very good.
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couldnt help but smile, doubt if this was intended
we read it
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And we still love the platform!
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bertb
Sorry for the delayed reply.
It was meant to be funny then :-)
When we looked at other open-souce CMS options (especially the coding standards), the more research we did, the more we disliked them.
Drupal is the inverse. The more we look, the more we like.
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excellent idea
That's an excellent idea Ber and if no one beats me to it I will see if I can get a draft of something togeter by this weekend.
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Drupal Best Practices Guide
drupal empowering citizen reporting
it's great to see another (citizen reporting) site using drupal!
here are just a few others that quickly come to mind...
http://NowPublic.com/
http://ourmedia.org
http://h2otown.info/
http://www.blufftontoday.com/
http://www.ofbyandfor.org/