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Importing Blogger Content to Drupal Using Wordpress

Posted Fri, 2009-06-12 23:34 by matthew

When I first started blogging in 2004 I signed up for a Blogger account to get on this blogging bandwagon.  We secured dogstar.org in the late 90’s and ran a small site on an LC III running Quid Pro Quo from a shared Ethernet connection in the Blacksburg Electronic Village.  I wasn’t blogging at that point-but I was writing about my thesis work and posting it to the site.  If you are interested in how dreadful the site looked back then, try looking on the WayBackMachine.  I actively blogged on blogger between 2004-2006 when I started playing with Drupal.  I cross posted for a time and then pretty much abandoned my Blogger account until I started using ping.fm.  ping.fm became a way for me to “store” all my tweets and generated 1000’s of individual posts.

Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress - Drupalcon DC

Posted Sun, 2009-03-08 21:52 by matthew

The last session I attended at Drupalcon DC was a comparison between Drupal, Joomla!, and WordPress.  Christine and Hagen Graf helped explore usage, features, and usability of Drupal, Joomla! and Wordpress.  The questions that they sought to answer included":

  • Who is using it
  • what are they looking for
  • comparison
  • cultural differences
  • project competition and collaboration
  • community engagement

Christine and Hagen used Google Trend as the yard-stick of Drupal “volume”.  I personally question the over-all validity of using the number of searches made for the words Drupal, Joomla!, and Wordpress as an accurate metric of use/flexibility and so on.  However, it did reveal that Joomla! is queried 3.5 times on Google than Drupal and Wordpress 2.85 times more often.

They went on to compare Insiders and Outsiders. Creators and consumers.  Finally, they defined “Normal” users in a non-technical way.  Those are the people who would just pick up the software, install it, and use it.

Joomla! is designed to be easy to install and set up even if you’re not an advanced user.  Many web hosting services offer a single click interface to make the process even simpler.