Nate Angellraised by wolves, accidental open-source evangelist

Twitterfeed The Pulse of Open Source just launched thanks to the hard work of ravenzachary and witigonen.

Tune in now to take the pulse of open source...While I'm honored to be a part of the feed, it seems like there are a lot of open source luminaries more luminescent than I, so let's get the word out and get them on board.

Blogged with the Flock Browser

With today's release of Drupal 6.0, I've upgraded my test site from RC4, which was again as easy as pie.

http://test.mediapede.org/

You can read my earlier post on what's exciting in Drupal 6.

I just installed my first Drupal 6.0 version (RC4), which took a total of about 3.5 minutes. You can visit the resulting (minimalist) site at:

test.mediapede.org

O how I want to Flock in the morning. O how I want to Flock in the eve.

But I can't because Flock can't authenticate me to my OpenID, Drupal blog.

Flockstars take notice: OpenID critical mass is growing. Take a look at OpenID support in these flocky sites and at least let us know what you all are thinking about integrating OpenID support in Flock (very partial list):

Several key Drupal community members have gathered together with some others to form Acquia, a new commercial firm that hopes to sell subscriptions to Drupal a la RedHat's linux distros. Acquia has already generated $7 million in funding.

Let's heed the call for an open source census with the open source discovery tool.

We've long been maintaining that open source technologies are in wide—and often unrecognized—use in many organizations. Now we have an initiative and a tool to help demonstrate that claim with real numbers.

Now that I'm working for rSmart, I expect to need to be at their HQ in Phoenix, Arizona fairly often. Being a native Coloradan, I probably don't need to belabor our general attitude toward Phoenix: This land of water- and gas-guzzling conservative golfers should not exist.

But now that I've matured (some), I'm trying to have a more open mind. Also, as I have to keep coming back to Phoenix for work, I should try to find something here to like (besides my awesome colleagues at rSmart).

The hype and opprobrium on Amazon's Kindle is out. The verdict is in: usability AND content are king. Depending on who you read, the Kindle succeeds or fails on one or both counts.

The funniest monkey and driving force behind DrupalEd, Bill Fitzgerald, just posted about a new feed aggregation demo via Drupal:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/7271

Since the icon is right there on your iPhone home and you signed up for all those extra or unlimited SMS messages, maybe you didn't consider using IM.

Or maybe you did, and I'm just slower than you ;) Well, I had mine for 20 minutes and immediately decided that free data is better than paid text.

Maybe the easiest way to IM on your iPhone is to point Safari to your meebo account (a web-based chat aggregator).
http://www.meebo.com/