Writeboard (http://writeboard.com/) came out this week, as did Google Reader at http://reader.google.com. These two releases spurred two separate but related conversations, the first about Writeboard and how Drupal can work as a Wiki, and/or do just as well what Writeboard does.

Two links related to this conversation are here http://drupal.org/node/32916 and here http://drupal.org/node/32888. Charlie Lowe, from the Professional Writing Department at Purdue University has instructions for "Creating Wiki Functionality" on the Drupal platform. Boris Mann at Bryght.com also links to instructions on how to setup a wiki on Drupal, and which is actually running on a Drupal-based wiki.

The second conversation relates to what to use as a web-based aggregator. After setting up several and not being happy with any, we realize Drupal is the only way to go. Recent commits to the core aggregator module may make it easier to use a web-based Drupal aggregator as a feed router. On September 1st a patch was applied which generates RSS feeds for all aggregator pages, essentially aggregator out-feeds. The aggregator module handles Atom for a few months now, and more recently patches were applied to add support for namespaces for rss items to allow other modules like the audio.module to work with iTunes RSS and others (see what James and Boris committed here).

In both of these conversations, Drupal came up as a viable solution, and perhaps a preferred soltion to the second. As the aggregator module matures I see it quickly becoming a main attraction for many to go-Drupal.

Go Drupal.