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Posted by merlinofchaos on December 10, 2006 at 5:15pm

Hopefully most of you recognize my name by now. I'm very interested in being involved in a Drupal distribution that focuses heavily on article management and can be used to drive newspaper-style sites. There's a lot of stuff out there in Drupal-land for the job, but a lot of it is sub-standard, and a lot of it needs a lot more growth before it's really good.

I'd like to be able to cherry pick what's good and help implement what's left.

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Awesome

Posted by yelvington on December 11, 2006 at 12:18am
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Views module is awesome. Good to see you here.

Indeed.

Posted by Max Bell on December 11, 2006 at 2:40am
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The group feels anointed or something. :D

Yeah

Posted by agentrickard on December 11, 2006 at 3:30pm
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Merlin won me over with NodeQueue, a module so handy that I would've written it if he hadn't already.

What we really need (at least to some folks) is a good 'edition' manager.

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It strikes me that a simple

Posted by merlinofchaos on December 14, 2006 at 6:20am
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It strikes me that a simple edition manager could be done with CCK and a derivative panels, perhaps. Though that really leaves kind of one page editions.

Simple, but manual?

Posted by agentrickard on December 14, 2006 at 4:42pm
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The editon manager would, ideally, be automated, based on NITF import.

The key is storage and parsing; there are a variety of presentation mechanisms to use.

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Editionism ... why?

Posted by yelvington on December 14, 2006 at 8:33pm
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I'd like to see a strong and clear explanation from a proponent of organizing news by edition. Anybody? What's the purpose?

To me it looks like what Christensen calls cramming:

"When an existing firm tries to insert a product or service with disruptive potential into its processes, what comes out the other end tends not to be disruptive. Instead of embracing the innovative product's inherently disruptive nature, the incumbent inevitably tries to morph the product to fit into its existing processes and values. It alters the innovation to enhance its appeal to core customers and fit within its operating model. The problem with cramming is that it changes the innovation in ways that obviate its inherent disruptive energy. It takes an innovation from a circumstance in which its unique features are valuable to a circumstance in which its unique features are a liability.

"Cramming is like trying to stuff a square peg into a round hole."

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