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 [...]
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 [...]
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). Web [...]
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