Dan Gillmor on Drupal
Dan Gillmor talks about Drupal, an open-source content management and blog system.
It’s not easy enough to use for average people yet, however. Some of the arcane terminology shouts that programmers have written this. Let’s hope the Drupal community can make it more user-friendly.
In creating the Life Times Voice system, I investigated all the major content management systems, including Drupal and its derivative, CivicSpace. They’re all very powerful; from an engineering perspective, they’re worthy of respect. However, none of them were as simple as I needed to make the product for my customers.
As these tools move from the early adopters to the early and late majorities, they will not succeed unless they adapt their metaphors and interfaces to normal folks’ sensibilities.
