A couple of weeks ago, Angela Simoes from the Autodesk Corporate PR team invited me to interview Callan Carpenter, Autodesk’s Vice President of Global Subscription and Support. Callan is responsible for the sales, marketing operations and product support associated with Subscription. He is also Vice President in charge of Jim Quanci’s Autodesk Developer Network. [...]
 19 May 2010, 8:19 pm |  Leave a comment | Tags: Angela Simoes, Autodesk, Blogging, Callan Carpenter, Interview, PR | Category: Autodesk, Interview, Other Blogs, Subscription According to David Cohn, at yesterday’s blogger event in San Fransisco prior to the 2011 launch, Autodesk provided the following figures: 76,000 man hours spent on Q/A of the new release 6,000 total code reviews of new release 2,000 commands tested 4,600 Beta customers involved in AutoCAD 2011 1.4M lines of old code were [...] 26 March 2010, 5:41 pm |  2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2011, Blogging, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Uncritical thinking | Category: AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk, Fail, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Spin, Thoughts Just announced by Shaan Hurley via Twitter and Facebook: Busy on the final details for a special Autodesk event next week in San Francisco with some bloggers. http://www.autodesk.com/webcast Follow the link and you will find this: Autodesk Webcast Date: 3/25/10 Start Time: 9:00 SF/12:00 New York/16:00 UK/17:00 CET Register today to join Autodesk CEO [...] 16 March 2010, 10:36 am | 7 comments | Tags: AutoCAD 2011, Blogging | Category: Announcement, AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Autodesk, Other Blogs This post is not about the new SpacePilot PRO 3D controller from 3Dconnexion (a division of Logitech). This post is about the Internet coverage of the launch of that new device, journalism, blogging, freebies and ethics. It has long been common practice for companies to give out free stuff to journalists. Free gadgets, free [...] 17 April 2009, 4:41 pm | 12 comments | Tags: AU2006, Autodesk University, Blogging, CAD Blogs, Ethics, Freebies, Journalism, Other Blogs, Review, SpacePilot | Category: Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Review, Thoughts, Writing Time to lighten things up a bit, I think. While attending the AutoCAD 2010 product launch in San Francisco on 5 February 2009, I conducted a series of micro-interviews with a collection of AutoCAD bloggers and Autodesk employees. One geek asks 14 other geeks if they are geeks; nothing too serious here. I hope [...] 27 February 2009, 12:38 pm | 6 comments | Tags: Autodesk, Blogging, David Cohn, Donnie Gladfelter, Dorks, Ellen Finklestein, Geeks, Guillermo Melantoni, Heidi Hewett, Interview, Jon Page, Lynn Allen, Mark Douglas, Matt Stein, Melanie Perry, Nerds, Other Blogs, Robin Capper, Shaan Hurley, Todd Shackelford, Video | Category: AutoCAD 2010, Autodesk, Fun, Interview, Other Blogs, Video This year, the Autodesk University people are allowing you to vote on the various sessions (classes). Here’s the link: AU 2008: Help Us Select the Sessions If I can sort out a few practical details, I am hoping to attend this year as a speaker. I have submitted four session proposals. These are: Customization [...] 29 April 2008, 12:47 pm | Leave a comment | Tags: AU2008, Autodesk University, Blogging, DCL, LISP | Category: AU2008, AutoCAD, Autodesk University, DCL, LISP 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!