Icon is a Digital Living guide published each Saturday in Australia's The Sydney Morning Herald (for Sydney readers), and The Age (for Melbourne readers). In this week's issue, the article Talk The Talk reviews Drupal as a "Free Website Management" tool. From the article:

If building websites was once a walk in the park, now it's a lot more like a walk across a six-lane highway in peak hour. Users expect more from their time online and site managers need smart tools to make updates quick and easy. Drupal is an open source content management platform that can form the beating heart of any website. From blogs to intranets to community portals, Drupal offers plenty of features and a host of plug-ins to deliver what any site could need. You'll need some technical skills to install it on your host server and get it customised, but this is a powerful solution that will take months off any DIY website effort.

Getting a plug in these two newspapers is a big deal, as they're two of the most widely read newspapers in Australia. According to a survey conducted in 2004 (registration may be required to view this page), the Saturday editions of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald have a readership of 1 million and 1.2 million people, respectively.

Note: this article will require (free) registration in order to be viewed, starting 8 days after its publish date. Also, in the printed newspaper version of the article, the Drupal website URL (i.e. www dot drupal dot org) is prominently displayed, as opposed to the online version, where it's simply an embedded hyperlink.

Comments

mgharris’s picture

There's no need to register to access these articles, simply go to:

http://www.bugmenot.com/view.php?url=www.smh.com.au OR
http://www.bugmenot.com/view.php?url=www.theage.com.au

to retreive a user/pass for these sites

Hosting Geek’s picture

Wow, as a Drupal fan that lives in Sydney this is great... good thing you got those new server

JamesBryant’s picture

Thos two newspapaers are huge in Australia we had our company http://www.globaladvancedmedia.com featured in The Sydney Morning Herald and recieved over 20,000 hits the next day to our website. Drupel is sure to recieve a large response from this article as well. Congrats on making the paper and I hope there are alot more syndications that pick up Drupels successes in the future.

steve007@drupal.org’s picture

Kudos on the newspaper exposure. I am sure it shows up in news searchs and rss feeds as well. I love this drupal project myself, and I intend to give it some internet press myself as much as possible!

Steve
http://www.liversociety.org