Prolific author and blogger extraordinaire Dan Gillmore has packed his blog and moved it to the bayosphere, a new site dedicated to citizen journalism in the SF Bay area:
I’ve moved my blog to Bayosphere, where I’ll report and comment on the Silicon Valley technology community — and a whole lot more including my observations about the burgeoning arena that’s variously called citizen journalism, personal publishing, grassroots media and a lot of other things. They all have something in common: the read-write Web.
The coverage has been interesting as usual, with posts on Drupal, Slashdot and an explanation on the Bayosphere about why they chose Drupal…
…and for some reason I was given credit for getting Dan to make the switch! While I did work with him in the initial part of this project, that work didn’t make it into the current iteration. In fact, Dan even came up to me during the PDF and asked me dryly, “So what’s this about you convincing me to go with Drupal?” In any case, I’ve now been in touch with both Dan and Jay Campbell (who set up the site) and we’ll be finding time next week after I return to the Bay area to discuss this project further. But I should make it clear… I don’t feel like I deserve all that much credit for doing any convincing. I may have been one of many putting a bug in his ear, but if Drupal weren’t really the best choice, I don’t think he would have gone with it, regardless of anything I might have said.
With that, I welcome Dan to Drupal and hope he’s got a lot of gripes that I can go to town on!
*P. S.* Turns out Moby uses Drupal too. Who knew!
*P. P.S.* See? We can get along! Matt calls the Bayosphere One of the best uses of Drupal I’ve seen
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Factory Joe 
Actually I think Bayosphere is pretty lame, but B19S rocks, which is what I was trying to say in that entry.
I’m thinking of switching to Drupal…just got going within the last month…and I see you are using wordpress. I’m confused. You create themes for Drupal (I’m going to use your “lincoln’s revenge”) and you use wordpress? Ok, that said. How do I add my own blocks in your theme “lincoln’s revenge?” I don’t see a tab or link to the add block feature. Thanks, JT