Nonprofits don't use e-commerce much,  but I've had some experience (on both sides of the profit fence) doing e-commerce, and for some reason, shopping carts are intriguing me at the moment, and I figure its a good time to know what's out there, especially in the open source shopping cart world. What would I use if someone came to me wanting to set up a store? The last time I looked closely at this (which was a few years ago) it was a different situation - there wasn't much in the way of open source shopping carts.

I've had a bit of time now to work with Drupal 7. I've been playing with it since it was still pretty experimental, but I finally put together a whole site with it recently, and am pretty happy with it. It's gotten a big leg up in terms of usability - this was a major focus for this release. The basic user interface is much improved over Drupal 6, and unrecognizable if you've only been using Drupal 5 or earlier.

Reports of the death of email are, of course rampant, for the past, oh, 10 years or so. First, spam was going to kill email. It certainly is true that most email sent these days is spam, but that hasn't managed to kill it. More recently, facebook and twitter were considered likely candidates for killing it off.

In April of this year, I left twitter. I had good reason to leave twitter. And, after a few months, I didn't miss it. And, frankly I still don't miss it. But I had a bit of an epiphany lately that you social media mavens out there will very much appreciate. I figured it was worth writing on this blog about. I joined Twitter in the beginning, because my colleagues were.