One of the advantages of RSS is that you can pull content. But with Drupal's taxonomy_dhtml and syndication add-on modules, it's possible to push it the other way.

So that Terra and I can do some collaborative writing, I setup a new taxonomy on my Drupal site called friends with a term "Terra" (good to select the option to allow multiple categories to be used in case there are more "friends") I then posted a blog test with "Terra" selected.

In Where does the name "Drupal" come from?, a drupal.org member explains,

Drupal (droo-puhl) is the English pronunciation for the Dutch word 'druppel' which stands for 'drop'. The word drop was chosen for the drop.org community blog after Dries made a typo when he checked to see if dorp.org was available. 'Dorp' is the Dutch word for village. The word stuck.

In response to a query about a bug and extending the RSS capabilities of Drupal, one of the developers posted the following note about future improvements to import.module:

You really need to look at the import.module in Contrib. It is so sweet. It stores incoming feed items as nodes. That means you can queue, promote, etc. these items just like other nodes. Further, feeds can be associated with terms, so that every item that comes in under this feed will have some default terms attached to it. Thus, you can easily accomplish what you are talking about (mxing external content with your own) without bothering to import your own feeds. Just browse to the appropriate term(s) page.

I blogged this first to opened.

What Makes an Open Source Project Successful?
- The Slashdot community is discussing their ideas about how to make an open source project successful.

Part of an email to an Open Education member:

Beyond the weblogging/forum/collaborative aspects of Drupal, there are two main features that I think puts it in front of the CMS's I have looked at:

1) The news feed aggragation and rss syndication in Drupal.
2) The taxonomy system.

I'm using taxonomy_dhtml.module on the test site which, when coupled with syndication.module, expands both the ability to push and pull rss syndication. Without them, Drupal provides RSS syndication for the individual blog sites and the main home page. When installed together, Drupal can syndicate rss via the vocabulary terms in the taxonomy, or combinations there of. Select "more" under the XML syndication icon in the right menu.

Had a few problems with Drupal. The blog it link was producing html text in the form window which had broken hyperlink tags. Little edit of the blog.module took care of that.

Also had to modify user.module and change the user login block as it was pushing out my side menu because of the way it was formatted. Seems to me to be a lot of legacy formatting in the Drupal core which would be better left to CSS definitions in the theme. For example, right now, the blog post links on the main page are using a different style than the story submission links, even though I definied the node titles with the same css definition.