I had a nice conversation with Mark Schneider of Now Public yesterday about how to encourage their users to put more mobile content on their "worldwide citizen journalism newsagency" site. I wrote up a summary on the Bryght public wiki that is specific to Drupal sites like Now Public but generally applies to any website.

Here's an excerpt from: my wiki page (it's a wiki page, so feel free to update my typos and add other cool Drupal suggestions and modules!), How to Support Mobile Content Creation in Drupal:

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The general rule should be to provide as many roads to Drupal as possible! The base technology (i.e. protocols like email, MetaWeblogAPI and Atom Publishing Protocol) are relatively "easy", getting something usable and useful on the mobile device is the hard part.

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The PC Turns 25... Oh, I Remember When You Were Just This BIG!

IBM launched its' first personal computer 25 years ago this month in 1981. According to an article in this week's The Economist, we are meant to mark this IBM anniversary as THE benchmark that saw the first PC "that ended up defining the standards around which a vast new industry then coalesced".

The article goes on to say that we should also be celebrating what this PC brought to all of humankind: cheaper computers, more readily and widely available, more useful, and of course, the ever-advancing and evolving new technologies, from voice-over-internet to online commerce, to the overall communications Mecca that we all could now never live without (!).