Drupal 5 released

The popular open source CMS Drupal released its latest version today. I’ve been using a release candidate version of the new release on a couple of sites-in-development for a few weeks now, and can confirm that it’s a huge improvement on the old one – two big plus points being the beautiful new Garland theme and the graphical installation.

Drupal is a superb piece of software for community building – it includes traditional CMS, multi-author blogging and forum software all in one super-customisable package.

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Microformats update

I wrote a bit about Microformats earlier this month, but it looks like they could get a real boost soon with the BBC taking using them for Radio 4 – presumably a move which, if successful, will be rolled out across the board. Vecosys quotes a source:

We’re currently looking at using the event microformat on the redesigned radio 4 schedule page (and possibly throughout bbc.co.uk/radio4) And we’re wondering if a network/service (BBC 1, Radio 4, Radio 1 etc) could be described as a “location”

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