I read with some fondness and a chuckle the release announcement of RedBlueAmerica.com. Why? Well, because I know some of the PingVision team and I know some folks at Scripps.

And because our similar, Drupal-powered site went live for all our newspapers last month.

ActiVote uses the Domain Access beta to provide content across a group of affiliate domains.

Tip of the hat to grndlvl for his work on ActiVote and to the PingVision and Scripps folks.

But this also illustrates one of the oddities of open-source. I’ve been arguing for a while that news organizations need to move behind open-source in part so that we can pool resources to solve similar problems. Here, we have two groups using the same platform but different projects in order to meet similar goals.

I just wonder if we could have teamed up. (Probably not, the business logistics tend to interfere.) I am hopeful, however, that the News Industry meetup at the upcoming DrupalCON will help get some collaboration moving.