As a news junkie, I'm a big fan of RSS/etc and the sleek feed readers that have grown up around it. My personal favourite is Netvibes.
Since my Drupal tab was getting a little crowded, I decided to create a multi-feed widget for all my Drupal groups. Netvibes made this super simple with its RSS Reader example. Which took only a little tweaking to result in...
I plan on attending this month's meetup on Thursday 21st August, at the ABC Centre, 700 Harris Street, Ultimo.
Stay posted for updates etc at http://groups.drupal.org/node/13300.
And on a humorous note, from May 2008's CeBIT Australia (I don't know how I missed this, I was deeply involved in the event's organisation):
As initially mentioned, we have had a a Drupal for Library 2.0 demonstration available for a while. We finally cleaned up the implementation and have made it available for download for everyone:
Download a library-specific Drupal 5.x distribution by Neem Tree
Go Mediazine, a popular webzine about art and design has a detailed six-part writeup about creating a band-oriented Drupal theme.
The workflow they follow is:
1. Creating the mockup
2 & 3. Slicing and re-assembling the slices with XHTML + CSS
While we're strong advocates of using 'best fit' solutions for the given requirements, we are also highly likely to recommend Drupal for common website requirements. Being big Drupal (the free, and open source, web construction kit solution) fans, its especially exciting to witness it's Tipping Point: "the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable"*
