Business press, trade shows and deja vu
I've received a bunch of angry and a few cordial emails about my supposition that DATE was either dead or not long for the world. Grant Martin of Tensilica even made a comment on my post yesterday pointing out how valuable the content and meetings were for him at DATE. Some people pointed me to Peggy Aycinena's rambling review of DATE (that I had begun to read but stopped after I saw the first comment complaining that she hadn't really talked about the content.) So, for the record, I know that the content in technical conferences like DATE, DAC, Semicon, etc. are all outstanding stuff. I know that the chance to meet with colleagues face to face is important. That's not the point. Back in 1995 I started writing a State of the Media report for clients to let them know where editors had moved to, what they were promoted to and what new publications they should be looking at. In 1998 I started noticing that magazines were starting to strugg...