Progressive Briefing
This site really shows off the power of Drupal 6 core, and fantastic modules like CCK, Views, Node Queue, and Feedapi.
For Progressive Briefing, editors enter news stories via the social bookmarking site Del.icio.us.
These stories, including tags are imported at regular intervals using the module Feedapi . Latest stories populate the "Top 10 News Stories for the Week" box. Editors can then promote a story to the "Top Story Box" by adding it to a node queue.
A potentially time-consuming task is made into quick, simple work.
http://progressivebriefing.org/
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