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Sam Guzik over on CoPress.org details the successful relaunch of Student Life, the “independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis”, on the WordPress MU platform:
In their evaluation of various platform choices they concluded:
“Although Drupal is also extremely powerful, we found that WordPress’s interface was better suited to a workflow that would begin to allow [...]
I’ve been chatting with the folks at Tierra Innovation and WNET.ORG (Channel Thirteen in New York) on their impressive collaboration utilizing WordPress MU as a CMS for WNET.ORG’s network of high-traffic websites:
Using WordPress MU’s built-in features along with custom themes and plugins such as WPDB Profiling, they made it easier and much cheaper for WNET.ORG [...]
The Ford Story is a recently launched site committed to making Ford’s progress towards getting new high-quality, fuel-efficient cars, and trucks on the road today transparent and open. The site is completely powered by WordPress and uses WordPress as a CMS to deliver a wide variety of static content, videos, photos, and dynamic updates.
We talked [...]
With all the great coverage today of the U.S. Election an informative and truly funny source can be found on TIME’s Liveblog Election ‘08 site, powered by WordPress.com VIP.
Written by Michael Grunwald, James Poniewozik, and Karen Tumulty, the live blog includes gems like this:
7:21 p.m. – Michael Grunwald: Also hilarious on cnn: the constant scoreboard stuck at 8-3 for mccain. Ballsy of him to go for two so early in the game, don’t you think?
And this one too:
7:17 p.m. – Michael Grunwald: I haven’t even started drinking and wolf blitzer appears to be interviewing a hologram of princess leia.
[ Visit TIME's Liveblog Election '08 site ]
Okay I just poured the Kool-Aid,I feel terrible.Please don’t tell me McCain lost Ohio too. You know.. first the time change messes me up now I won’t sleep tonight hearing my mother in head going I TOLD YOU SO CHRISTINE.Folks I think I’ll just frink my my foolaid