DAC, EDA and the Unbearable Lightness of Blogging
Summary: The Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry may be dead (or dormant) but its communications strategies aren’t. Engineer- and corporate-bloggers are finding their way very quickly through the evolving social media world. I pulled up to the Moscone Center for the 46th DAC this week and thought for a moment I was at the wrong [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Old media, new technology and the tyranny of age
Summary: Sometimes established media shows its age and biases with breathtaking clarity. Media plays a key (if fading, alas) role as cultural skeptic, but increasingly it appears out of step with technology advances that imperil media’s traditional model. The farther it falls the behind, the more it imperils its important role. I felt this way [...]
Future of Newspapers–Doonesbury Edition
Hard to resist. It’s ironic on so many levels.
Obama pees; film at 11
There ain’t no such thing as fair and balanced anymore, Steve Boriss points out in his The Future of News Blog. The media is treating Barack Obama’s Middle East trip as if the Pope was on a goodwill tour. This is his first time there, for God’s sake. I don’t see a lot of mainstream [...]
Saying good-bye at EE Times
What follows is the last column I wrote this week for EE Times, after spending 15 great years there. (I posted a little about last week and expect more in the days and weeks to come). Fifteen years ago, I joined EE Times, taking a job as business editor. I knew it was a great [...]
Back in the saddle
Too long a hiatus on the old blog-o-sphere… Vacation, good. Returning from vacation to one of our biggest trade shows of the year, chaotic. Then returning to office amid minute by minute evolution of the publishing biz chaotic x 2. Since we last spoke, the Journal is going with jewel-box ads on page 1. Unusual [...]
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