Drupal challenged as White House goes blog

The switch was designed to be transparent, but even a casual observer will note the site now features five separate blogs, and that officials' names are now listed on announcements that read more like stories, often with personal details.

So it's one small step for Washington, one giant leap for open source. Sites like Whitehouse.gov are the ultimate honeypots for hackers and script kiddies around the world. This is true regardless of the party in power.

What that means is that government programmers, the Drupal team, and the folks at its commercial arm, Acquia, are going to be very busy with real and imagined bug reports. It's going to test their systems as well as the software.

Officials indicated that if the Whitehouse site works well Drupal could be in line for other government work.