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Title says it all. I'd be interested to hear how you like the QuickText module, since it's a nice compromise between a lightweight tag editor and a WYSIWYG editor.

After having to delete a couple hundred spam comments this weekend, I've turned off anonymous commenting. Either the human spam bots are working overtime or CAPTCHA has been cracked. I'll turn on anonymous commenting when things settle down.

I don't know but I'm working on finding out. Will post update here tomorrow.

Update, 2009-03-14: An upgrade to Drupal and all contrib modules has not solved the problem. I tried some debugging as suggested at http://drupal.org/node/362799, but doing so produced an unexpected result, so I posted a comment to see if anyone else had seen the same.

University of Rochester has made available screencasts explaining the various components of their eXtensible Catalog (XC), which uses Drupal as public-facing and staff interfaces. The "Drupal toolkit" component allows libraries to load their metadata into Drupal and provide search services on that metadata.

Get it here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/darien-library-live

Anyone who's interested in both Drupal and DSpace have probably already seen this, but there is a discussion about integration between DSpace and Joomla! and Drupal going on over at the DSpace General email list archives.

I've installed the Quiz module on this site. It's pretty neat -- yet another example of a contributed module that adds a whole new dimension to Drupal. The latest official release only supports multiple-choice questions, but the maintainer says more features are on the way, like matching and essay-style questions. If you want to try a little demo quiz on installing Drupal modules, go for it.

Aaron Winborn's Drupal Multimedia (Packt, 2008) documents one of Drupal's most obvious deficiencies, media management. Drupal's built-in media handling capabilities appear rudimentary if you want to do anything beyond attach files to nodes. This deficiency is intentional and reflects Drupal's modular design, that is, contributed modules can be (and have been) developed to add specific functionality for different types of media.

I have to admit that the upgrade from 5.12 to 6.8 was not trouble free. I followed the instructions in the 6.8 INSTALL.txt to the letter: I backed up my db and site, and upgraded Drupal core and all contributed modules to their latest versions (actually, everything was already current except for a couple of contrib modules). As a matter of housekeeping I also uninstalled a couple of modules that were not being used.

This article by Ilana Kingsley and Mark Morlino is from the most recent issue of Code4Lib Journal. Nice work!