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Drupal is up for industry awards - vote now!
It really feels like Drupal is accelerating in the marketplace lately. You can help keep it keep it going by voting for / nominating Drupal in important industry awards. Here are a couple that need action from you today.
Drupal is running as a finalist in five categories for the Sourceforge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards. VOTING ENDS TOMORROW!
Found! Drupal Tweet Charts
In a recent post, I complained that Summize doesn't provide trend charts. Chuck sent me a link to Flaptor's Twist, which does.
Twitter Sentiment Analysis
Check this out. It's a Summize sentiment analysis of Twitter mentions of the word "Drupal".
It shows that at this particular moment in time, sentiment for Drupal is "swell". Not quite as good as "great", but better than "wretched".
From the Huh? Files: "Why Wordpress, Drupal, and other CMS’s are bad for Innovation | Brainnovate"
Check out this post: Why Wordpress, Drupal, and other CMS’s are bad for Innovation | Brainnovate
And it includes this gem:
Although I haven’t used it, Drupal sounds like Wordpress on steroids, with an attached boat anchor to slow you down.
Loving Ecto Even More
Mike Potter brought my attention to the ability of Ecto to set input formats when publishing to Drupal. Very nice.
You go to ecto > settings > weblog > format and voila!
It's nice to find tools that work the way they are supposed to.
Getting Ecto Set Up with Drupal
At the urging of Jay Batson, our CEO, I finally broke down and got Ecto set up with Drupal. I had to enable the Blog API module, but things seemed to work just fine after that.
It seems to work pretty well so far. The image uploading is nifty, and the WYSIWYG and tagging functionality seems pretty good. Having all that HTML or even Markdown markup in your posts makes it harder to read.
