Back in the day (all the way back when anything with the letters .com would make you rich), Webmonkey was THE resource for web geekery. They followed the trends and even set some of them. It had great content and was actually an outgrowth of Wired! (then called HotWired!) Magazine. Unfortunately, the site succumbed to the fall of the dot-com world and disappeared for several years. Well....they're back!

The folks on the Drupal board just released a new FAQ that answers many of the Drupal licensing questions that are out there. It's actually a pretty good primer into licensing for open source in general.

One interesting note is that if you use CIVICRM (which several of our sites do), the entire site falls under the Affero General Public License (AGPL) version 3 which requires that visitors to the website be given a copy of the server-side if they request it.

Forrester Research just released a report discussing the open source CMS software market and identifying two that they should pay attention to: Alfresco and Drupal. Drupal is getting a tremendous amount of love these days and it's not surprising.

While I was at TODCON a couple of weeks ago, one of the presenters introduced me to the Jing Project from TechSmith. Wow! What a gem that find was. There are several really very good screen capture programs for Windows (Captivate, Camtasia, etc.) and a couple for Mac (I use iShowU). However, they've always had one problem, publishing is hard.

Did you ever meet someone who was just naturally a cultural match for you and your company? Someone who "got it" not because they could mold themselves for an interview, but, rather, someone who was just naturally that way? I've been talking with someone about joining Lucidus for two years and the timing finally worked out, Mike Hoefer. My great news is that Mike will be coming on board starting Monday.

The next version of Firefox, Firefox 3 is due to be released at 1pm Eastern. We've been trying to keep an eye on this release and, thankfully, Firefox upgrades normally go well for our sites.

I sat through a great presentation this weekend at Todcon on Web 2.0 tools and listened a bit about what defines them. Although we've been using (and creating them for a couple of years now), I'm always fascinated by the many different ways they're defined. The truth is that, to a degree, it's all marketing speak.

Here is my presentation from the Marketing Your Services session. TODCON has been a great deal of fun (although my asthma has been bugging me a bit).

Here is my CMS for Web Designers presentation from TODCON. I discussed why a designer would want to use a CMS (particularly Drupal), how to install it and some theming basics.

In case people were wondering about the conference where Danielle and I are presenting late next week, it's TODCON (originally titled The Other Dreamweaver Conference before it grew to be so many more things). The conference is June 6th-8th in Orlando. Danielle and I basically own Track 3 on the second day of the conference. We present the following five sessions: