This is an excellent read as I think about Drupal's role within social software... After years of study, I found this blog from Matt Webb most interesting, and actually very accurate. Enjoy reading.

The largest current installation of Drupal 4.4.0 in terms of community size has recently been upgraded to V.2.0. The common code for this blogging community powers motime.com and tipic.com (in English) and splinder.it (in Italian). Among them, there are more than 180,000 registered users.

One of the more interesting aspects of the Splinder/Motime project is the way that it takes advantage of a series of stand-alone modules written by Tipic, Inc. which showcase the flexibility of Drupal's module-based architecture.

The following is a summary of what we have been working on since the release of
Drupal 4.4.0 (approximately one month ago), what we are currently working on, and what
we like to work on.

Drupal, a very powerful Content Management System (or CMS). Getting even more powerful and popular as the versions go on. I have taken time out to test the newest edition of Drupal and have tweaked my review to represent it.

The review is just shy of 2,000 words and covers many points about the system - for example the way in which the modules etc. are actually useful and not pointless - and even some bad points. Well if you want to know them you'll just have to read the review! :-D

I post this here so anyone who is willing to read can read this review and decide for themselves if Drupal is for them. I know how hard it can be to decide on a CMS so this, hopefully, will help those still questioning Drupal make their mind up one way or another.

The Drupal project has released version 4.4.1 of its open-source content management platform today. As no critical bugs have been identified, this is a minor bugfix and maintenance release. There are no new features in this installment.

As an open source software project maintained and developed by a community, Drupal is free to download and use. You can download Drupal 4.4.1 by clicking the link below:

http://www.drupal.org/drupal/drupal-4.4.1.tgz

This is the follow up to Open discussion on Drupal's themeing capabilities and templating engines., and is more technical in nature than the previous article. This article intends to go into depth about the nature of the current system, and what possible improvements could be made in the future.

It will attempt to refer to as much actual code as possible, so much so that I am starting to wonder wether it would not have been faster for me to just write the code and get it done with, however.. I also feel that it is important that contributing designers have a reference point for the nature of these changes, hence this discussion.

I am only indexing the current Drupal 4.4.0 contributed themes, as they are the only ones which would be able to support all the drupal features. Unsupported themes that should be indexed additionally should please be mentioned in the following discussion.