Finally! Tired of having my drupal submissions in the various generic subreddits get modded down, I have taken the necessary steps and created the official "drupal" subreddit on reddit.com.
For those of you not familiar with reddit it is a social news site in similar vein to Digg. Recently the administrators of reddit added the capability to create your own subreddits on specific topics.
Check out the link below to access the drupal subreddit:
I wrote about my experience with the OpenID account provider Clickpass in the previous blog entry Using Clickpass for OpenID Site Login. I mentioned I would try to install OpenID for use with Clickpass and the CEO of Clickpass left an encouraging reply. This week I tried installing the OpenID Drupal Module. I must say it was a bit confusing, but I was able to successfully log into Startplane from Clickpass.
Techcrunch is shining light on the Chinese Government's censorship of YouTube in response to the posting of video depicting their violent crackdown on Tibetan Protesters .
While browsing del.icio.us the other day I came across a new site called Clickpass that provides you with an OpenID account. There have been a number of OpenID providers in the past, but something seemed different about Clickpass. For a while I thought OpenID was set to go the way of the foaf... a great idea that fails to take hold. Now that Yahoo has announced support for OpenID I figured I would give OpenID another look via Clickpass:
Look at the bottom of this article and you will see a "Digg This" button using the familiar digg icon. Adding this button is an easy way to increase the visibility of your blog. To add this digg button simply install the Digg This module from the Drupal website. It's installation is surprisingly simple (as are most Drupal modules).
I noticed the title of this blog entry matches the title of my last one with only one slight word change. But the difference between the two titles is rather significant. "Community Plumbing" refers to the mechanics of Drupal itself, while actually building an online community is something completely else.
If you haven't heard about Drupal by now, you should! This is especially true if you consider yourself any type of web programmer or developer. I've been experimenting with Drupal on-and-off for several years and am continously impressed with how easily it allows you to create brand new, powerful, community driven sites.
For those who doubt the strength of Drupal just take a look at a few of the big-name sites powered by Drupal:
I created a new content type called a "Project Page" in Drupal for organizing and keeping track of various projects I hope to complete using Drupal. I'm hoping I can integrate this into the Getting Things Done framework that I have been using recently. I don't use all the minute aspects of GTD, but as a beefed up TODO list I have found the process rather effective.
The two projects I have started so far are:
Sites That Link Here
I came across a very interesting new site today while investigating the Advanced Forum module for drupal. Shell Social Network Playground is a site designed to show how Drupal can be used to make a social networking site.
I'm just now getting into the whole drupal movement thing, but I have to say that I like what I see. When I see quotes like Larry over at GarfieldTech saying things like:
Drupal is a community; a living, breathing, growing, vibrant community. It's human nature to want to be part of something bigger, something grand, something amazing. Well, here it is.
