SCDSource follows the trend. Goes away.

SCDSource, a grand experiment launched in reaction to the layoff of Richard Goering at EETimes, closed operations officially today.  The site was launched shortly after I launched New Tech Press a couple of year ago at an EDAC meeting where Paul Miller of EETimes explained why the magazine was de-emphasizing EDA coverage.  Paul took a lot of heat at that meeting, but his reasoning proved to be prophetic.  The industry was just not interested in supporting coverage in any form.  The publication was supported by some advertising and catalog revenue, but mostly by private investment from very hopeful people.

New Tech Press, BTW, is still around, still producing content, but still not focused on EDA alone.

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  1. JL GrayMay 10, 2010 at 5:33 AM

    Interesting. Of course, there hasn't been anything worth reading on SCDSource since Goering left, so I can't say the site will be missed.

    JL

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  2. Lou CoveyMay 10, 2010 at 5:41 AM

    JL, just what was the difference between what Goering was doing and the rest of the content in SCDSource. I mean, there were other qualified journalists working on the publication. Was it just because it was Goering vs. anyone else or was there something in particular that went missing?
    I think it's worth noting that very few people supported it with or without Goering.

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  3. JL GrayMay 10, 2010 at 5:50 AM

    Good question. I can't name a single other journalist who wrote for SCDSource. And I can't recall having been impressed by any article I read on the site after Goering. And I didn't read many of the articles. It's entirely possible I wasn't paying close enough attention or I was just noticing engineer-contributed content. Also, perhaps there wasn't much in the area of pre-silicon verification.


    JL

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  4. Lou CoveyMay 10, 2010 at 6:06 AM

    Well, Bill Murray was kinda the workhorse from the beginning. Richard got to pick and choose what he did, and Bill did the rest. Tets Maniwa did some in the beginning as well. Andrew Kahng, Bill Hogan, Grant Martin, Jan Rabaey and several other industry luminaries were advisors, but it was interesting that there were no advisors with experience in how to run a publication, print or online. So what they had was an engineering publication run by engineers. I guess we can take what we want from that.

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