Drupal

Clearly, I haven't been posting here lately. Lots of reasons for that, but one that's worth mentioning publicly is all the work that's gone into revamping and expanding NewAmerica.net.

The new site went live today -- much cleaner, IMO, thanks to Mike Jones' design, and a much-needed shift in emphasis to topics and timeliness.

With apologies to Nick Lewis, whose post I read and re-read when wrapping my head around Drupal in early 2006.

Drupal is great. Drupal is modular. Drupal is scary complicated.

Earlier this year, the topic of media outlets bringing programmers into the newsroom generated some interesting discussion (from Tim O'Reilly, Mark Glaser, and others). As O'Reilly put it, "the various jobs of journalism -- gathering news, exercising editorial judgment, and presenting the story -- can all be augmented by programming.