Daddy knows best: Tim Berners-Lee uses Drupal
We owe a lot to Tim Berners-Lee, whether you know him or not. In short, he is the father of the World Wide Web and the creator of the very first web site. Recently, as part of MIT's Decentralized Information Group's web site, he published his first blog entry with honest-to-goodness "blogging tools", explaining that:
... I have had the luxury of having a web site which I have write access, and I've used tools like Amaya and Nvu which allow direct editing of web pages. With these, I haven't felt the urge to blog with blogging tools. ... That said, it is nice to have a machine [do] the administrative work ... and it is nice to edit in a mode in which you can to limited damage to the site. So I am going to try this blog thing using blog tools.
It should bring us all great pleasure to know that Tim's first experience with "blogging tools" is our own Drupal.
One of those moments
One of those quiet, warm celebration moments when you just happy to be there. I am soo moved, on the brink of tears. Thank you all.
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Thanks Drupal
Yes ,Having drupal export as much as humanly possible is a good step,Thanks DRUPAL.
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Yay!
Nice to know that we are in August company!
My Drupal-powered Blog: ThoughtfulChaos
Slashdot picked this up
Better late than never. Here is the Slashdot post.
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BoingBoing got it too
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/18/www_inventor_tim_ber.html
...and Fox News
Others are picking it up too.
what an endorsement
that's great news and no surprise really. I have been lurking on here for a while and just started playing around with the new beta 4.7
Drupal is superb and I have tried most of the other CMS tools out there. None come close to Drupal.
Let's hope Mr. Berners-Lee sticks with Drupal and finds time to visit (drupal.org) here more often. Can you imagine the input someone like him could give to "where do we go next?" drupal posts?
Phil
I was hoping he'd start sending patches ;-)
- Robert Douglass
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He would tell you
He would tell you that you cannot decorate your heading with ;-)
You have to add the ;-) using CSS.
petermoulding.com/web_architect
No No! ';-)' was intended to be part of the content
;-) was part of the 'content'. So it is alright in the title :-)
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Semantic Web
The fact that they are using Drupal is not coincidental. Drupal is well positioned to become a leader in semantic web publishing in 2006. With lead developers like Adrian and Morbus who have expressed deep interest in Semantic Web issues, I wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Berners-Lee finds more reasons to become personally involved in the Drupal project.
- Robert Douglass
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My Drupal book: Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB and WordPress
Indeed.
the new relationship system maps very directly onto RDF.
Having drupal export as much as humanly possible is a good step, but there's very interesting possiblities in building drupal into a tool that can also aggregate and filter RDF.
Also, just by dropping an aggregator site somewhere, it is giving meaning to everything it aggregates.
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