I attended Drupalcon last week, which is a bi-annual Drupal conference for developers, themers and business development types like myself.  I had a great time, so here are some quick thoughts on the conference. (1) Drupal people are really nice.   Conversations came easily and people ...

Anyone that has done a lot of work in Drupal knows what a complete pain it is to upgrade from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6.  The change was dramatic, and many vital Drupal 5 modules still haven’t been upgraded to work in Drupal 6.  For many sites, going from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 isn’t ...

Last Thursday, we released the 2009 edition of our newspaper study.  There was some great commentary about the study around the blogosphere.  The general reaction was relief that newspaper website are getting better, but a sense that whatever they do probably won’t be enough.  B...

Dan Farber of CNet has a good blog post up on what he calls the “lifestreaming” of Barack Obama.  He writes: Barack Obama will be the most shadowed president in history, and it won’t be just the Secret Service and press corps surrounding him.  Citizens and paparazzi armed with ca...

I think the iPhone application developed by the Obama campaign was fantastic.  I’m on the record.  I’m also on the record that iPhone applications are a luxury item most organizations should skip, given the still relatively small user base of the device. Since playing around with the t...

Traffic on The Bivings Report has been going crazy the last two days due a link to our blog within the extremely viral Inside CRM piece “The Twitter Hall of Shame: 50 Tweets That Will Echo in History.” The Inside CRM post could serve as a guidebook on how to create a viral article: It is...

The Wall Street Journal published a great piece yesterday about the struggles of LoudounExtra.com, the Washington Post’s bold attempt to provide hyperlocal news coverage for the DC suburb Loudon County (I’m sure the Post really appreciated the free press here). A year in, the site has ye...

A few weeks ago, I saw a Twitter post from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh about a Twitter-related problem his company is having. As we’ve written about before, Zappos loves Twitter and hundreds of its employees actively use the micro-blogging tool. Zappos has even built a micro-site that aggregates all...

At the New Communications Forum conference I attended last week, Twitter was the topic of a great deal of discussion.  During panels and hallway chats, three things became really clear to me: (1) There are a lot of smart people who have no idea what Twitter is, or who only know about it in the ...

A little over a year ago I wrote a post that guessed which emerging technologies would have an impact on the 2008 election cycle. I figured I’d take a quick look back and grade my predictions, as well as list a few new technologies that have emerged since I last covered this ground. Here are t...