I was happy to receive an email from Nancy Johnson this morning informing me that Cadalyst is going to continue. From March onward it will be published by Longitude Media, led by Seth Nichols, former VP of digital media at Questex. Nancy will continue to hold the editorial reins. Questex still owns Cadalyst, but [...]
 26 February 2009, 9:14 am |  Leave a comment | Tags: Cadalyst | Category: Cadalyst, Navel Gazing, Other Sites, Writing This is one of those awful self-indulgent blog posts you hate, so just skip it and read the more interesting stuff a bit further down instead. It is now a year since I started this blog and this is my 200th post. Here are the site statistics for 2008: Here they are for [...] 18 February 2009, 10:17 pm | One comment | Tags: Navel Gazing | Category: Navel Gazing, Thoughts, Web Stuff As many of you may know, I’ve been writing for Cadalyst since 1995. Yesterday, I read in David Cohn’s summary of the history of Cadalyst that in 1991, Lionel Johnston sold CADalyst to Aster Publishing for $2.2 million. How times have changed! Today, current owner Questex doesn’t think it’s worth keeping alive. I’ve been [...] 17 February 2009, 9:30 am |  6 comments | Tags: Cadalyst, Navel Gazing | Category: Cadalyst, Navel Gazing, Other Sites, Thoughts, Writing After my recent attendance at the AutoCAD 2010 launch, I have a few dozen subjects I’d like to blog about, lots of video editing to do, and not enough free time in which to do it. Many of my fellow launch-attending bloggers have beaten me to it with many of the meaty bits, but [...] 13 February 2009, 2:45 pm | 4 comments | Tags: 12-Month Release Cycle, AutoCAD 2010, Release date | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs I am an unashamed Autodesk University enthusiast. I’m not at AU this year, but if I was I’d be blogging about it like mad. I had all sorts of plans for posting reports, photos, videos, interviews and so on, but circumstances conspired against me and it’s not going to happen this time round. These [...] 2 December 2008, 1:40 pm | One comment | Tags: AU2006, AU2008, Autodesk University | Category: AU2006, AU2008, Autodesk University, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Video I was interested to see Shaan Hurley reporting the Ribbon usage figures from the Customer Involvement Program (CIP). Shaan’s figures show Ribbon non-users at 46%, my poll results show it as 71%. Why the discrepancy? Is somebody telling fibs? I don’t think so. First, blog nauseam poll respondents represent a biased sample, comprising people [...] 25 June 2008, 8:45 pm | 5 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Polls, Ribbon, Shaan Hurley, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Polls Looking at the comments, it seems not everyone is happy with the Matt Stein interview. If so, I’m sorry you feel that way about the piece. In my own defence, I would point out the following: I like to think my work at Cadalyst represents a balanced viewpoint. I pride myself on being fair. [...] 13 June 2008, 4:12 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Cadalyst, Interview, Journalism, Matt Stein, Navel Gazing, User Interface | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2009, Comments, Interview, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs In a recent blog post, Roopinder Tara included this throw-away comment: Pure bloggers don’t do advertising, so no worry about advertising pressure — the secret and unstated fear of us all in the trade press. I respect Roopinder, but this kind of “pure blogger” label irritates me. I have an ad on my blog [...] 25 March 2008, 9:12 pm | 19 comments | Tags: Advertising, Blogs, Ethics, Journalism, Matt Lombard, Rant, Roopinder Tara | Category: Advertising, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Rant For this review of my third favourite debut album of all time, I dusted off the trusty old turntable so I could hear it as it was originally heard. It seems that certain stock phrases must be included in all Led Zeppelin reviews. So before we go any further, here they are: primal [...] 9 March 2008, 9:58 am | Leave a comment | Tags: Blues Rock, Classic Rock, Debut Albums, Hard Rock, Led Zeppelin, Metal, Music, Top Three | Category: Album Review, Music, Navel Gazing A belated thank you to Kiwi Robin Capper for his welcome to the CAD blog world. Here’s a snap I took of Robin at Autodesk University 2006: Similarly, thanks to Lynn Allen for linking to my post about her famous Cell Phone Story. Here she is, also at AU 2006, presenting me with [...] 1 March 2008, 8:51 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AU2006, AutoCAD, Autodesk University, Lynn Allen, Pictures, Robin Capper, Shaan Hurley | Category: AU2006, AutoCAD, Autodesk University, Fun, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Pictures Roopinder Tara has raised an interesting point about how different CAD vendors treat journalists and bloggers. Ralph Grabowski has responded with a “Who cares“. Now you have more CAD blogger navel gazing to put up with as I have my say on the matter. As a traditional magazine journalist (Cadalyst, 1995 – present) and [...] 29 February 2008, 2:09 pm | One comment | Tags: Blogging, Freebies, Journalism, Navel Gazing, Ralph Grabowski, Roopinder Tara | Category: Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Web Stuff |
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Blogging = arrogance?
Here’s a quote from somebody I know:
Blogging is an inherently arrogant concept. It implies that your opinion is worth more than that of other people.
At the risk of offending all my blogging friends, I’m not sure this is an entirely inaccurate viewpoint. Discuss!