I almost hate to post a link to this because Ted Stevens is an Alaskan hero of sorts....but two aspects make it worth sharing first, Steven's insightful claim that "The internet is not a big truck, it's a bunch of tubes."; and second, Dvorak's line about Ted Stevens, "It's hard to believe this guy can even find the crapper."

Holy cow, what an articulate defense of Non-Net Anti-Neutralitiationarism...er something.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1985071,00.asp

or direct link to audio repository:

http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/497

Has anyone tinkered much with http://www.talkr.com ? Just found it in a search for interesting podcasts. I took the couple minutes register, and the next thing I know...I was listening to posts from kairosnews.org being read to me in a quite pleasant voice. I was actually pretty impressed by the intonation skills the synthesizer had. Anyway, here's the site's claim from its blog:

"Our pitch is simple: we will convert your text-only blog into a podcast for free. We will monitor your blog every hour, and convert each new article into an mp3 audio file using the best speech synthesis software on the market.

The Drupal development community seems to be pretty good at weaving new modules into Drupal to account for a wide variety of specific and requested uses. However, I'm wondering if anyone is using Drupal with(in) other environments/tools. For instance, I can see someone prefering the phpBB2 format for a discussion board. More bells. More whistles. More features (i know, i know, charlie..."check the drupal development page for the better discussion module"). With not much work, the two--drupal and phpbb--could share a db for their tables, and merge user lists (if you wanted to take advantage of integrating taxonomies...that would be some work).