Via Mathew Ingram and others: WordPress is moving towards the social.
Via my general research and what I know about Drupal’s goal – it is moving towards becoming easier and out-of-the-box.
At WeMedia last week my new friend David Sasaki said something along the lines of: "Drupal is becoming more and more like WordPress and WordPress is trying to move to become more and more like Drupal."
With any luck – the two will meet somewhere in the middle.
I put more thoughts about this at BeatBlogging.org
Here’s hoping! I like to think I’m a pretty smart guy, but trying to pull together a Drupal 4.7 site on the side was daunting, and I decided that if I didn’t need the intense CRM and event type functions of Drupal, it’d be better to shake’n’fake it with WP.
No matter what Drupal does, it has a severe disadvantage when compared to WordPress: loyal following. The best thing about WordPress is the colossal user group that supports the software, free of charge.
Creating a blog with drupal is not easy. That’s where I started and after weeks of configuration hell I switched to wordpress. For blogs, wordpress is the way to go. Here’s my experience:
http://www.codza.com/why-i-went-from-drupal-to-wordpress