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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Future of Newspapers–Spreadsheet Edition
Really interesting piece from Peter Kafka in All Things Digital today in which he talks with Outside.in CEO Mark Josephson. Josephson shares some spreadsheet numbers on a model of a future city newspaper. It can work. It will have a smaller staff and no printing press, but Josephson argues it can work. I buy his [...]
Managing the Chaos of Twitter: Real-time Search
The more you get into Twitter, presumably the more people you follow. This quickly becomes a scaling problem as hundreds, if not thousands of messages can stream through your feed throughout a given day. If you’re like most people, you may check Twitter once a day. You see the top few tweets but to go [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Social Media Webinar Recap
We didn’t solve major problems or part the seas, but we took a stab at starting a conversation about social media strategies, particularly in the B:B space Tuesday night. You can check out the archived version of our Webinar here. It involved my old EE Times colleague Steve Paul, longtime editor and Red Sox fan [...]
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