Requirements listing for the Greenpeace UK

Yep, another high profile Drupal site in the making.

IMHO factoryjoe is one of the most creative and productive people in the OSS industry. He was the man behind SFW, created the NYT add, used to work for flock, created zillions of cool tshirt designs, organised barcamps, helped out on civicspacelabs, worked for Mozilla and did a lot of other stuff for Drupal. I met him once shortly, and he is indeed a nice smart bloke. So far sucking up.

I once had a customer how had lots of geographical data. They created their own GIS and plotted that data. The development of the GIS costed a couple of 100k's. Then somehow someone plotted the same geographical data on Google maps. And boom! Better userinterface, cool navigation, no software development, no maintenance cost. I always tell this stoy to sales. We always think of time to plot data. But the fact is that there is no data that doesnt have a geograhical component. So google earth might be just as suitable to plot data (any data) as a calender is. And combining those two axes, tiem and place, seems like the smartest thing to do.

Where is this story going? Take a look at this mockup from factoryjoe:

Now that IS smart! See his blog posting.

Newsandtech has an article aboutBlufftontoday.com, "trying something different in online newspaper space"

BlufftonToday.com, owned by Morris Communications Co., complements the print edition by drawing community conversation and contributions. The site is built on ‘Drupal’ open source content management software.

Nice the see the oldskoll media pickup Drupal as well. I would love to see the Dutch media make that shift. Since some of my customers are in that business, I know that some Dutch media looked at Drupal as a blogging tool, none of them however looked at Drupal as a platform, which it is.

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Drupal training at the nato school - oberammergau, germany

Op nu.nl, Politie zoekt Linke Loetje op site Sévèke

Het rechercheteam dat onderzoek doet naar de moord op de Nijmeegse activist Louis Sévèke zoekt iemand die zich 'Linke Loetje' noemt. Deze persoon heeft op 1 februari een bericht geplaatst op de website die familie en vrienden van Sévèke bijhouden.

De wereld is veranderd. Mensen worden om niets neergeknald (dat is al een tijdje zo). Maar als het tegenwoordig gebeurd, is wel iemand in de buurt met een mobieltje om het te melden en foto's te nemen. En "de schrijvende pers" is men zelf geworden. Dus op de site van de vrienden en familie van Louis, konden deze de gevoelens uitten. Maar konden ook mensen regaeren. En schijnbaar was een reaktie de moeite waard om de politie in te schakelen die het nu onderzoekt\.

Sterkte!

btw: http://www.louisseveke.nl/ is een (standaard) drupal site.