Here is a prototype of a library catalog (III's Millenium) wrapped on the library website with Drupal (a MOSTLY opensource website content management system -- mostly because a commercial version of Drupal is now under development).

The Drupal module for integrating the library catalog includes modules like ratings (Fivestar), Faceted Search, and Similar by Terms.

I'm re-doing one of my domains with textpattern or wordpress. I considered drupal, but to be honest, I want something with a little stronger 3rd party support. There are several features & functionalities missing in drupal which I need. For a site from scratch or one with content generated from within drupal, all is well. For those working with 3rd party apps already, well, it may or may not work (or even be available).Drupal templating is also notoriously tough to work with, although with the new css zen template, it is easier to give it a look which is not straight out of the box.

Occasionally, I answer a question and I think, hmmm... maybe I should turn that into a blog post...In response to a question on the best web authoring tool for someone just getting started -- under consideration - a content management system (CMS) such as drupal as well as creating individual webpages.

wow, a much better notepad than notepad! this thing rocks.

So, I've been trying to figure out if I want to move to wordpress.com or use wordpress.org on my domain, or do something entirely different (I'm running drupal on my domain). Occasionally, I have considered moving over to wordpress.com as well... I like wordpress. It's not so much that I hate blogger, it's ok, but I've been wanting to do something with all of my baby* blogs for a long while. Anyhow, back when I created the baby* blogs, blogger didn't offer labels or categories (well, they still don't offer true categories). Wordpress.com wasn't available.

I'm going to add this to my e-zine list, but I think this e-zine template for wordpress looks really good.I do wonder about the pre-publishing and issue creation, though. One of the advantages of pacercms is that I can create the issues prior to publication. I do think draft posts could accomplish some of that, but...

Although the introduction of this article is overly simplified in terms of the changes in library technology (I couldn't help but laugh a little in a couple of places) , once you're past that, the rest is a good little overview of some of the more popular opensource products.

okay, pardon the bad pun on dr. strangelove...I've been following some of the opensource ils projects with interest. evergreen (launched by the Georgia Public Lib System), is still in heavy development.

5000 resources to do just about anything onlineI love mashable and I can't possibly summarize everything in this article, but if you are looking for new things to do with your blog/website, or just to have a little fun on the 'net, do take a look. You can find things such as 30 widgets for a wordpress blog, 70+ podcasting tools, 12+ twitter tools, etc. Lots and lots of wordpress stuff. ;-)

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