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

The Changing Media Landscape at DAC

Arguably the highlight of this year’s Design Automation Conference (#46, if you’re counting and arguably the first “social media” DAC) was a program put together by Synopsys (kudos to Karen Bartleson, Rick Jamison and Yvette Huygen) called Conversation Central. It had a series of kitchen-table talks from engineer-bloggers and media folks on the changing nature [...]

Engineer-bloggers and the future of the electronics conversation

What’s the future of electronics B:B journalism? Look no farther than Harry the ASIC Guy.
An engineer by education, experience and passion, Harry Gries is carving for himself a niche in the electronics-design conversation with his eponymous blog, Harry the ASIC Guy (Twitter: @harrytheasicguy).

I talked with him recently for a story on social media in electronics [...]

Social media’s rising impact in the engineering world

Perhaps because I blather on about it, Suzanne Defree at EDN asked to write a piece about what’s going on regarding social media in the electronics engineering world. She posted the story last week, and I haven’t had a chance to call it out because I was out of the country (Costa Rica, where sand [...]

B:B Publishing’s Jazz Funeral

Summary: B:B publications in the electronics space continue to fold or shrink, but out of the ashes are rising new publications run by seasoned editors in an era when small, focused and agile define the face of media.
Compound Semiconductor magazine is being put to bed for the last time. Mike Hatcher, the publication’s publisher and [...]

Out of Joost

Joost, the online video-sharing service founded by Skype founders Nik Zennstrom and Janus Friis, pulled the plug on its original business model. The company, according to The Wall Street Journal, said it would reinvent itself as a whitebox technology provider for companies wanting to publish Internet video under their own brands (Hmm…. no first-mover advantage [...]

The Bloom is off the Twitter Rose…Finally

You’re probably familiar with those great time-to-market-saturation charts that pop up in PowerPoint presentations every so often. It took, for example, a number of decades for the telephone to penetrate the majority of homes; fewer decades for the radio, fewer still for TVs, VCRs, and cell phones.
The same might be applied to social media platforms.Twitter’s [...]

Analog Devices Gets More Digital

Summary: Analog Devices today unveiled a new social-media community for its customers, Engineer Zone, designed to drive conversation about digital signal processor (DSP) technologies and products.
Analog Devices is an old-line semiconductor company that’s starting to get more serious about new media. Today the company unveiled a new social media community built on the Jive platform [...]

Streaming Consciousness

Summary: Hardware and software technology has matured sufficiently to bring streaming live video to the desktop. Platforms are emerging that people and companies need to examine if they’re interested in exploring the modern world of broadcasting and its implications for communications.
I haven’t made a batch of beer in a few months and I’m getting antsy [...]

Call for papers: ARM TechCon3

I’m really honored to have been picked as this year’s technical chair for ARM’s TechCon3, to be held Oct. 21-23 in Santa Clara. John Reardon, CEO and founder of RTC Group, which manages the event, asked me if I’d be interested. And why not? It’s always been a great program. I’m taking over for Markus [...]

Don Imus and the devolution of media

Back in the saddle after one of our busier weeks of the year, covering and participating in Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley. Highlights included cool tear-downs of big cars, Al Gore keynoting and the third annual EE Times ACE Awards, where I get to hand out awards to cool people like Lee Felsenstein (right).
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