Are You Up to the Social Media Challenge?

As I set up my Google+ profile, I thought “How am I going to find the time to manage yet another social media account?” I already have three Twitter accounts, Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, two Facebook Fan Pages and let’s not forget my YouTube account, which has an endearing video of me and my 79-year old dad singing “Happy Birthday” to my nephew.

Not too long ago I was consistently posting updates using TweetDeck (and HootSuite on my iPhone and iPad), and it only took me about 15 minutes per day.

Drupal 6 vs. Drupal 7

For now, the winner is clear.

We recently uncovered an excellent example of the immature state of Drupal 7 versus its well-established predecessor Drupal 6. We noticed early on in a recent project that the underlying data structure for content had changed in Drupal—there is now a component of the content-element data object that stores a Language ID for each value, which didn’t exist in D6 (granted, it’s always set to “undefined”, but it is there). This means that, in theory, individual content elements can have different language values, even in a single node (e.g. /node/123 can be displayed with English or French content).