Warner Brothers Records rockin’ it with Drupal! | drupal.org: Drupal.org has a fantastic writeup about the new Warner Bros. Records homepage, which is one of 15 sites we now have done on Drupal.
Let me just say: I love music. I love technology and I’m focusing on our job of building a solid business between the two. I’m a geek and a music fan. Drupal has helped me marry being a geek and a music fan. Some point of history: before I started at WBR, I had ethankaplan.com on Drupal, and had toyed with Drupal in my graduate work at UC Santa Barbara. I’ve been using it since version 2.0 I think, or maybe 1.0? Not sure.
Anyhow, Drupal is a big part of our 07 initiatives and Shaun, myself, some consultants, WorkHabit, aka Firebright (Earnest, Jonathan and Dale especially), Bryght, Alex King, Josh Pigford, Prod4Ever, David Hull (13Jupiters) and tons of others have been working our asses off to make it a solid platform (or Platform) for our artists.
The beauty of open source, and I think open-engagement with the community is that it provides some transparency to our internal workings, which in the end has yielded better code, modules and consulting from all parties involved. Everything from code to process is under continual revision, but that revision is collaborative and open (thank you Basecamp and MediaWiki!) and a hell of a lot of fun. It makes me very happy to have WBR credited on open source modules on drupal.org.
Anyhow, I’m going to pause, catch my breath and then get back to Drupal work. More coming soon!
PS: because we can, we put in a blog on the site that a bunch of us update continually. Its a very loose look at what happens at 3300 Warner Blvd.
Hey Ethan,
I’ve been reading your blog for some time now, and you’ve got me interested in Drupal. I’ve been using Joomla successfully for a while, and when I compare features I don’t find much to make Drupal seem all that (comparatively) spectacular… but maybe there are music-site-specific modules etc that I’m not seeing?
If you’re familiar with Joomla, could you comment on one versus the other?
Much thanks,
–Mikey
Drupal over Joomla is easy: its object based, and not as tied to a strict three tiered content organization scheme as Joomla. That means that it is not a CMS, but an application framework, which makes it much easier to abstract and adapt into any implementation scheme.
Thanks for that, Ethan.
If nothing else, it tells me that I need to do some deeper research into Drupal before making a rash decision. Appreciate it!
–Mikey
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[From Has been... | Willy Dobbe]- #
The XMPP feed was really cool. Why Twitter won't allow relaying is beyond me. If twitter decentralized and did a node/hub based architecture with a good toolkit, things would be much different.
[From No XMPP: What Is Twitter Protecting?]- #
So why couldn't a loosely coupled, queue based system using XMPP work as a twitter clone? Hash table lookups for @replies, a good OSPF type routing table for interserver communication and asynchronous messaging propagation. Lets get cracking!
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The dutch certainly like their Twitters! That's better twitter coverage than we got at most of the US shows.
[From July 2nd, Amsterdam, Netherlands | R.E.M. Tour, 2008]- #
For the past ten years "tapped for web series" has usually been synonymous for "lots of money on stuff no one will want to watch." Can Google + MacFarlane reverse this? Probably not, because they don't understand the concept of Windowing. Content is successful when not built up with expectations.
[From Google taps 'Family Guy' guy for Web series | Tech news blog - CNET News.com]- #
so this reminds me that Indigo Home Automation software + native iPhone App is going to absolutely MURDER as a home automation device. IndigoIndigo has an IP protocol and Zeroconf support. Our iPod Touch in our house is already doing this using a web based interface for us. Also consider the possibilities of using the iPod to control a wider array of devices, like your home stereo (using IRTransIRTrans), your air conditioner, etc. The iPod Touch suddenly kills the Phillips Prestigo, Logitech Harmony, etc. The Touch costs less than the Harmony, but IRTrans is not that cheap.
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Crystal was a great asset to the team and it will be sad to lose her, but our loss is many other people's gains and I wish her well in Seattle!
[From Clever, Clever Girl » Big Changes and a Bigger Move]- #
This is severely retarded. Honestly. In Orange County, a city with a plentiful population of people needing jobs and wanting to work and invested in their communities, a paper instead opts to crowdsource through Indian outsourcing than maybe offering to give something back to the community by crowd sourcing through, maybe parts of the city with high unemployment? Fuck. The stupidity abounds.
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So this is another in the line of REM experiments. With this one, fans can help create the animations for the tour backdrop in the European leg, through October. The animations will get assembled and shipped off to Blue Leach, who is doing the background video.
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Bill Gates = a personal hero. I love this e-mail. Microsoft is also a case of spreading things too thin.
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- Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant
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