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Journalists and Bloggers

Roopinder Tara started a discussion about journalists and bloggers on his blog. (Does that make him a journalist or a blogger?)

I posted a comment there, but I'm going to revisit it here, with the basic intention of getting more folks to visit this blog, so that I make more money. (Wait -- I don't make money from this blog.)

Bloggers? Journalists? They seem like labels to me -- things you apply to people because you have some requirement to put them in a pigeonhole.

What label would you want to give me? Journalist? Blogger? Maybe something entirely different?

CAD vendors have never known what pigeonhole to put me in. Do they invite me to their press events? Do they not invite me? Do they blacklist me?

(Consider Autodesk as an example. They didn't invite me to their press event. Think it was intentional or an oversight?)

It was easier in the past when I had a business card that had a title on it. PR folks can understand the title "technical editor," or "analyst." (They also understand "person who, if you invite him, is going to ask really tough questions.")

Here's what matters to me: Do you have chops? Do you have integrity? Do you have perspective? Do you have passion? And will you speak up?


Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 03:58PM by Registered CommenterEvan Yares in | Comments3 Comments | References1 Reference

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"Here's what matters to me: Do you have chops? Do you have integrity? Do you have perspective? Do you have passion? And will you speak up?"

What journalist, blogger or user besides Joel Orr has clearly laid out, like Joel Orr has, that not having a high level tool to map out all the complex relations that solid modelers often create is really a major problem? To my knowledge only one SolidWorks blogger has mentioned this problem. He did so many months ago and he has basically been silent about it ever since. What a pathetic situation it is when so few want to discuss the uncontrollable (in a timely fashion) mess that history based, parametric solid modelers often create. Here is a link to Joel Orr's article on this subject:

http://machinedesign.com/ContentItem/68359/howwasthatmodelbuiltSoftwaretellsall.aspx

Jon Banquer
San Diego,CA





March 3, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJon Banquer
Evan

Yup - labels.. I'm going to get some shirts printed up for next week - but I can't decide between..

"Shut the fuck and show me product"

"I don't write white papers"

PS: Jon should look at the new tools in Pro/E for mapping just those relationships. Looks sketchy but works nicely.
April 2, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterAl Dean
Thanks for the heads up Al. Any chance you can review what these new tools in Pro/E are and show how they work?

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
April 14, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJon Banquer

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