New York Observer dumps Drupal for WordPress

I was looking for large sites that use Drupal as their CMS and came across New York Observed (which lives at Observed.com). I remember it as a high-profile "newspapers like Drupal" convert.

Not anymore.

Observed.com is now a WordPress site, as WP parent Automattic and Yahoo's The Cutline report.

One thing I noticed was a rather nice photo-gallery app that could very well be an off-the-shelf WordPress plugin. Of course any photo slideshow app that doesn't use Flash is more than OK by me.

While not related to Drupal, other recent defections to WordPress include:

• BoingBoing, whose Movable Type-to-WP transition I wrote about previously.

• The Bangor Daily News, which did a whole lot of work in order to publish online via WordPress with the help of Google Docs for copy creation and flow. (Check out the dev site for way more detail.