[drupal-docs] Drupal vs Mambo

[Liza Sabater]

On Aug 01 2005, at 01:11 PM, Charlie Lowe wrote:

> I also think I'm seeing a trend that those that see Drupal primarily 
> as a content management system are more likely to see "social 
> software" as an empty buzzword. I hope no one takes this personally 
> when I say this, but we need to focus on whether or not those that see 
> Drupal as mainly a community-building/collaborative tool think of 
> social software as a useful term since it's that audience which the 
> term targets.

Charlie,

This is really important because human activity on the net will always 
be 0s and 1s.

Morbius and other naysayers,

Just because human activity on the net is data it does not mean that 
you have to treat people like content. Heck, in my part of the net, 
with the resident net artist, I can attest that almost all of Napier's 
early net art was social software even before the term was created : 
Digital Landfill, cBots, Riot, pSoup. So please, seriously,  bookish 
explanations about what is and what not is social software have nothing 
to do with the hard earn reality of life online.

Social software is jargon? Fine, call it whatever else you want. But 
please, don't call people content. You are doing a huge disservice to 
the product.


  / Liza Sabater