Brian Fuller’s blog on the state of media and communications

It’s the medium is the message, stupid

L. Gordon Crovitz, writing in today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required), puts it simply:
“It’s ideas that count, not how they’re transmitted.”
This is a closing line in a column about e-books and the iPad. That a “print” journalist makes this comment directly and without pussy-footing around with adverbs is a testament to how far we’ve come.
Or, [...]

Chatting with Karen and Rick on Synopsys’ Conversation Central

Just after jumping back into the fray at EE Times last week, I had a chance to talk about what we’re doing and the state of the “social engineer” with two of our industry’s leading communicators and social media mavens: Karen Bartleson and Rick Jamison at Synopsys. Their Conversation Central programming has expanded from its [...]

Back at EE Times–What gives?

After three years out of the daily publishing grind, I re-entered the troposphere this week as Products Strategist for EE Times.
As my old man used to say, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” (I think he used to say that each year near the end of his one mandatory no-drinking month).
I spent the past three [...]

Time well spent?

One in every 4.5 minutes spent online is spent in a social network or in a blog, according to a study released yesterday by Nielsen. That’s engagement. It’s too bad that’s not translating into the engineering B:B space. Semiconductor and EDA companies have invested millions in the past 5-10 years not only revamping their Web [...]

The Great (Print-Online) Debate (Cage Match Edition)

In one corner, John Donovan, the crafty veteran (he of low-powerdesign.com), sat eyeing his opponent, rubbing his Everlast gloves together in anticipation; in the other, another crafty veteran, John Reardon, Donovan’s ex-boss at RTC Group, glared, as he shuffled his laced-up, ankle-high shoes on the canvas. In between them sat a third veteran, Rick Jamison, [...]

The rewiring of our brains

Are our brains going haywire? There’s been a lot of buzz about the latest weigh-in on the gadget-addiction theme: The New York Times’ piece Sunday Hooked on Gadgets, Paying a Mental Price.
Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is [...]

Saint Steven frets about blogger nation

Steve Jobs could belch and get national play. He did so this week at All Things D, where he said he doesn’t want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers. We must do everything in our power to find ways The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, etc. can continue to get [...]

Good Times

It’s been a while, yes. We’re selling our house and moving to San Francisco (more on that in a later post) so the past month has been, to say the least, busy. Then there’s that work thing. At Numetrics, we’ve been working diligently to launch a new software product, and that’s just crazy nuts. Which [...]

A modest proposal for a new resource in electronics B:B

In my communications and community job at Numetrics, I’m learning lots of new things about how to market and communicate in the electronics B:B space. The main thing I’m learning is that we have few resources in this industry to do our job well.
Ours is a unique audience (engineers) and niches within that audience (think [...]

Industry events need to get more social

If we think publishing is turmoil, why not take a look at traditional live industry events?
I thought of this after spending part of the day today at one of my favorite annual events, Semico’s Summit, this year called the Semico Outlook because they held it for just one day and founder Jim Feldhan and crew [...]

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