A warm blogger welcome to the growing CAD blogging world goes to veteran journalist Roopinder Tara of Tenlinks.com. Roopinder was a former Cadence magazine editor before Cadalyst purchased the magazine. I have the premiere issue of Cadence magazine on my AutoCAD History website.
Here is Roopinder’s new Blog: CAD Insider: http://cadinsider.typepad.com/my_weblog/
Here is the link to my photo of Roopinder back at the Autodesk University 2004 in Las Vegas.
http://autodesk.blogs.com/photos/autodesk_university_2004_/au_120104_00011_1.html
The more formal journalists that enter the blogging world validates the blog medium. Being the self proclaimed first CAD Blogger back in 2003 as a pet project I have seen it grow into a large community with many different perspectives and opinions from customers, students, press, software developers, differing disciplines, and dispersed in every part of the world.
It is so amazing how the CAD news and opinions has gone from once a month, to once a week, to almost every minute of any day on the web. It can be information overload unless you use a RSS Feed Reader. Aggregating all your RSS feeds you subscribe to is like reading the newspaper or browsing through it for highlights. I have over 400 RSS feeds I read yet it take less than 20 minutes a day to find the highlights. In the process I get a wide variety of CAD and Technical news and enjoy it just like reading a daily paper. I currently use the free RSS Bandit as well as the new preview of IE7 and its built in RSS feed reader.
Cheers,
Shaan
Sean,
You are comparing a forum not a blog. There is a difference. Like saying I ate the first orange and you challenge it by mentioning you ate an apple first.
🙂
Po-tay-to, Po-tot-o…
For some reason “bloggers’ are so close minded about their blogs. Unless you use Typepad or Blogster or some other “official” blog software it’s “not a blog”.
Why not? There is a forum yes. But only certain “top” items get sent to the front page for the “blog”. Any what’s better is that people can DISCUSS the topic.
Instead of a one way path of communication (or having to leave these tiny comments), the users are INVOLVED in the site.
(Besides the example I posted had nothing to do with a forum. As I said it was even before “blogging became popular”. Regardless, looks like Robert has us both beat, see link)
Sean,
You have to draw a line somewhere. I to had HTML pages with dated topics back in the nineties and even 1989 but forums and web pages aren’t really blogs. Nor does a blog need to be on a special system it just has to fit a mold. RSS feeds, community, format, and called a blog. So perhaps we could go back and forth on this one but my blog was the first termed a CAD Blog. That is exactly why I say “self proclaimed first”.
OK Shaan, you win. You’re the “first”. Just trying to have a bit of fun here.