In case you didn't hear about it yet, Raincity has acquired Bryght (my Raincity acquisition story) This is the first time I've participated in a formal press release. As a blogger, I find the language of press releases a bit un-natural and it sure is weird seeing how 'press releases' work e.g. how some more 'traditional' websites basically just re-publish the press release as news without adding any commentary. Hmmm sounds like a lot of bloggers. Or how people respect or don't respect embargoes. Thinking out loud: would be great to have a tool to graphically monitor the flow of news through the web starting with a blog post or press release.

Anyhow just some meta musings before I have my first coffee! I am stoked about joining Raincity Studios! Go Raincity go!

On Disguised Drupalist Debug Day, I recorded this video where Boris and Francis discuss how to manage source code with SVN and CVS and other source code control systems for Drupal and software development in general.

Raincity Studios has put together an excellent intro on how to contribute to Drupal as part of their prep for Disguised Drupalist Debug Day aka DDDD. If you are in the hood today October 31, 2007, come on down to 1 Alexander Street Suite 400 and 420 and join us! We'll be here until 5p.m. ish

Bryght has been helping out with Deep Rock Drive so we're thrilled at the launch of this cool music-related Drupal web app. Join today and check it out! More later!

From Come in, we’re open!–The DeepRockDrive Blog:

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Everything at DeepRockDrive revolves around the community of artists and fans, so growing that community is our #1 priority. With our doors open, we can welcome new music lovers from around the world, who can create petitions for the artists they love, and vote on the petitions that other fans have created.

Together, we want to get petitions to 1,000 votes so that DeepRockDrive can invite the artists to play a live interactive show. While we work together toward that goal, we’ll be doing some free promotional shows to help us ramp up the capacity and the interactivity at DeepRockDrive live performances.

Whether you like rock, hip-hop, jazz, country, classical, opera, folk, children’s tunes, or any other genre of music or live performance… we can’t wait to see you there!

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Smith started yesterday and will be with us until Christmas. We're putting him on the full "Web 2.0 program" (learning about blogs, wikis, RSS, flickr, upcoming, facebook, etc) and getting him to blog and add events at Bryght.com and Urban Vancouver and lots of other top secret :-) fun projects and tasks. I'm stoked to have a younger person in the office again because I love the perspective and sensibility of youth. Welcome Smith!