I've been doing my own survey of the 'platforms' out there - and we're working with Drupal. Looks like a winner to me.

Thanks goes out to Julian Bond for cluing me in on Drupal - a long time ago.

Now that I've met Jonas and Chris and Walkah and Adrian and Neil and Dries - we're ready to bring free open source social networking - to everyone. Oh and God bless FOAF and danbri too.

All headed towards a PeopleAggregator module for Drupal.

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Content Management Systems for alternative media.

I'm looking into systems to set up an alternative media website.

Here are a few that I found today:

The independent media center uses Mir as an Open-Source content managment system.

The Boston Indymedia Center runs on dadalMC.

dadaIMC also sports a new "license" section, allowing the author to specify a distribution license, selecting from public domain, standard copyright, or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

The Wes Clark Community Network used Scoop. Here's an interesting one, publicaccesstv.net.

Hey look, demand media runs on Scoop too!

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