Zach and Drupal

Drupal: Content Management System - Zach Chandler - ATS Division of Languages and Cultures - Stanford
starts with experiment... hit http://ma.gnolia.com/behaqechosh
So, Zach invites us to join his gooogle docs presenation. The woman sitting next to me, Dana, is online there too. So I poked her :-)
Drupal allows blogs, RSS--aggregation and syndication, wiki ready, folksonomy, modules for multimedia and microcontent, open API: User centric!!
alphabet soup was just enjoyed-too fast to type them out.
Drupal removes the role of 'webmaster'. Democratization and user-centric model. 'Just happens'
Why use Drupal: opensource means it gets fixed faster. fewer problems than industry model.
Drupal has a solid code base making it quite stable. dedicated security team. Modules might not be as solid... Thus the fewer modules you have to use, the better. Modules that show value get folded into the codebase. Drupal now is 'out of the garage' project.
800# gorilla reputation
if you want just a blog.. use a blog. But complex projects work well with Drupal. See also plone, moodle, textpattern, joomla, xoops, rails, etc.!
[Good god, that's a lot to review and evaluate...]
3 points to info design: CCK (custom content types), Views, Taxonomy
Imagine grid with elements of items X and users Y. Granular and separate.
Views. Allows you to create complex sql queries without knowing sql. enables knowledgeable users to create data pulls and design.
taxonomy--hierarchical or folksonomy.
Every term becomes a feed!
Now onto the sandbox! http://www.stanford.edu/group/drupal/cgi-bin
Just watch out for what the neighbor's cat just did...
swallt2007 stanford
Every student can create own podcast and then aggregate it from there.
RSS2.0 harvard bought it--then gave it away! has enclosure feature--allows attachment. Didn't catch what RSS1.x was for or how it was different.
Using the tags in Drupal somehow magically creates a separate podcast for each tag, so Zach's example has 6 tags, thus 6 feeds on itunes...
Why is it better? Persistent channel... gives you a window on the data--discoverable, searchable, indexed, etc.
Will this assist 'serendipitous' discovery?
Audience is concerned about how to show value to faculty, etc.---believes in playing with tools to find value.