Dan Gillmor moves to Drupal: Bayosphere

By kbahey on 15 May 2005 at 17:24 UTC

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.

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Sweet...!

factoryjoe commented 15 May 2005 at 20:54

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

capmex commented 16 November 2005 at 05:33

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!

jayCampbell commented 15 May 2005 at 21:44

Thank you FactoryJoe and the whole Drupal community for constant improvements to this kick-ass platform.

thanks chris

bertboerland commented 16 May 2005 at 07:06

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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watch the druplicon conquer the world.

Bèr Kessels commented 16 May 2005 at 09:35

... 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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