Jeff Eaton's Blog

0:00 - Welcome to the movie 'Doubt!' It's lookin' like the 50s or 60s. Drama took a while to get moving in those days.

2:30 - Kids playing outside. Uhoh. Kid mentions to his neighbor that he's an altar boy. Totally different implication now.

5:00 - And... our first Phillips Seymour Hoffman sighting! He's preaching about the Kennedy Assasination, a nice timecheck. He's talking to people about isolation and loneliness and doubt. It is a suspiciously Willow-esque sermon.

7:30 - We have our first...

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About a year ago, I was on a flight returning home from New York. The plane touched down and the woman sitting next to me whipped out her cell phone and dialed instantly. That's not odd in and of itself, but the conversation that followed was a little uncomfortable.

Apparently, her boyfriend had been told that she'd be returning that evening. And apparently, she thought he would be picking her up from the airport. As best as I could make out from her side of the conversation and the muffled...

My work with Lullabot involves a lot of teaching and training. We've invested a lot f time and resources in becoming experts, but there's more demand than we can fill: as such, "teaching people to fish" has been part of the company's mission since it was formed.

We've been really fortunate, in that all of the Lullabots have been passionate, eager folks who love sharing their knowledge. We've all had a lot of opportunities to collaborate on how to best train others to use Drupal, and we've...

There's an interesting discussion going on at MetaFilter about confused Internet users and the mistakes they make. It's full of laughs and full of arguments about iPads and Google and UX work, but one comment stood out to me:

"...How hard is it to understand what a browser is and what a URL is and how to use a search engine?"

The answer, in my opinion, is "Really, really really hard." The problem isn't that those individual things are tough to tell apart, or that a "menu" is inherently...

Last year I had the privilege of speaking at the Chicago CMS Expo, a yearly event that brings together experts from a variety of open source communities for learning and collaboration. In 2009, Joomla!, Drupal, and Plone folks had some great training and education tracks as well as interesting business sessions for the suits.

This year, WordPress has been added to the mix and the Drupal track features quite a few community luminaries. I'll be there in May along with Larry Garfield and Colleen ...

My life at this point is basically a nonstop firehose of Skype calls, delicious links, SSH logins, and googlefests culminating in presentations in strange office parks. I live in the cloud. My music, my photos, my todo lists, my notes, my travel arrangements, my Christmas list, and my pants size are just chilling out there in a distributed fluff of XML. So, yeah, on that level the iPad with a copy of Keynote for presenting and a bluetooth keyboard for server wrangling sounds like the best...