Hello,
It's the small touches that count, and it's all about keeping our readers' time sink in mind as we create technical content for them. While it may not seem like much, we spent a bit of time, this past week, crafting a new logo for our Electronic Design WEEKLY issue, which comes out late Tuesdays with rudimentary content, and pretty much contains everything by the end of the week.
If you miss the old print mag, like I do, a bathroom library staple that even had my ex reading Bob Pease behind my back (easy to intellectually cheat your spouse in a bathroom - she has a Masters in Biology, hates math, but devoutly read Pease - this I found out after she asked why I was moping around the house and I told her I found out that Bob passed away in a car accident), we've molded the clay of Electronic Design Weekly to be The New Electronic Design Magazine.
Rather than a mish-mash of hit and miss articles that you've had for over a decade of when you visited the electronicdesign.com page (it's still there...), since our content tends to roll off after a day or two, even sometimes in hours, now you can visit, swat away the annoying pop-up (I've tried to get them to drop it, but no joy there), and landing on the Electronic Design Weekly page gets you all the latest articles from the past week or so, an editorial on current events or thoughts by one of our editors (Bill Wong gets most of them, but James, Cabe, and myself rotate in about once a month), and a smattering of interesting content from the archives.
So, yeah, print got vaporized with the times, AI has threatened us by doing summaries that don't even land on our content (but still summarize it like it's their own knowledge), and our readers are busy people that want their news and product writeups in one, eyeball scan for 45 sec, place.
I've tried to craft this newsletter along those lines. Give you a summary of what's up, but also give you something a word-probability machine (AI) can't do - give you an engineer's eye, and an engineer's view of the world with healthy skepticism, with curated content that includes interesting materials I've found along the way. So, who is AI to summarize an EE's summary for EEs, anyway?
With that, I hope you enjoy our new "magazine", Electronic Design WEEKLY, and appreciate the countless hours I spend in reading every piece from which I curate and whittle it down to what I think will be interesting for all of us. Some interesting stuff going on in the world in my web news links as well.
enjoy,
-andyT
