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Dec 22, 2006 at 11:58 AM |
The venerable media voice of electrical and electronics engineering, EETimes, recently jump-started its invasion of the blogosphere.
Now flaunting seven channels of info penned by as many editors, the paper of record has, in one swell foop, increased the amount of nattering nabobitivity in the semiconductor, microelectronics, and general electronics realms by an order of magnitude.
The editors roster includes veteran chipmaking sector reporter Mark Lapedus, who now has a forum to take his pricking of the high and mighty in the fab and capital equipment companies to new levels of discomfort. Also serving notice is long-time EDA observer Richard Goering, whose recent post on ASML's buy of Brion raised the legitimate and important question of whether optical proximity correction (OPC) should be the responsibility of the litho equipment vendor or the EDA software supplier.
One weakness of the EET blog setup is its clunky archives system. It pops you over to a simple link for each month's postings, with no headlines or summaries of postings. When you click on that, you return to the latest posting from that month, which if it happens to be December puts you back to where you started, forcing you to scroll down to anything before the previous few days' postings. They need to work on that bit, especially once they have more than two months' worth of postings to archive.
The Web dweebs could also highlight the blogs better on the EET homepage, and should add some blogrolls and Webrolls for added linkability and user friendliness. (I've linked to yours, so why don't you link to mine, EET?!)
To check out the EETimes blogs, click here. I've also added the link to the Chip Shots Blogroll.
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