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Saturday, April 5, 2008 |
There's a new automation blog, this one is a company blog from Axeda discussing remote services. The company calls it "an online source for information and commentary on the growing remote service software market."
8:09:16 PM 
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Got a note from Tom Burke that OPC Foundation is a sponsor of IndCom. It's Industrial Connectivity-Converging Automation and IT in Santa Clara May 20-22. I'm trying to figure it out. Looks like most of the conference is building automation which would be a nice expansion of OPC technology. Or maybe Clasma, the show sponsor, is trying to move into the industrial space to fill the void left by the incredible shrinking National Manufacturing Week? If so, it might help them to call me and partner up. Good luck in Silicon Valley, Tom.
7:48:39 PM
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I received a notification that one of the pictures I took in Bologna last year was selected for inclusion in a guide book. I loaded it in Flickr and they found it. Interesting. That's Web 2.0. Here's the note:
7:41:23 PM
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Advantech Automation has started an online user forum.
7:20:55 PM
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Stumbled across two new blogs. Tom Burke of the OPC Foundation has a new blog. And for additional OPC pleasure, the newly formed Technical Advisory Council also has a blog.
7:19:45 PM
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I suppose everyone who reads this blog knows that my day (and evening) job is editor of a magazine. So, I follow the blog of a media guy--Rex Hammock--who in this post discusses why magazines won't go totally digital for a long time (if ever). When we started Automation World five years ago, we tried doing something innovative with a digital magazine. It just didn't catch on with either readers or advertisers. Magazine publishers love the digital concept--it cuts the cost of paper and postage to, well, nothing. But it's just too hard to read--and take on the plane or other places where you read magazines ;-) .
We'll see. What do you think? Room for both?
9:17:11 AM
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This podcast is a really interesting interview on Phil Windley's Technometria about "spimes" or small objects that can be tracked in space and time (sp-ime, get it?).
9:07:53 AM
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Sorry for the lighter posting. I never recovered from getting behind while in Philadelphia. My soccer assigning duties always get hit hard this time of year. I'm still the only certified referee assignor in west central Ohio. Speaking of soccer, did you see the quick red card Thursday night in the New England/Chicago match. The TV guys sort of knew it should happen but were trying to be sympathetic to the perpetrator. Not much sympathy for the player who almost had his ankle dismembered by the tackle. I wish the TV (and other media guys) saw the instructions we get. FIFA has ordered referees to take stern measures against studs up tackles aimed at knees, ankles and Achilles. The offending player knew he was in trouble. Especially when one of the league's stars is going to be sitting out for several weeks due to a nasty tackle in the opener.
9:05:49 AM
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I'm starting to read about a forthcoming total remake of Windows--dubbed Windows 7. See this article in Slashdot, for example. This would put Vista out of its misery, I guess. What does this mean for automation? I know a few suppliers have jumped on the Vista bandwagon early--probably so as not to be left behind. But I have seen little momentum for it in general. What do you see? Tony, are you all over Vista? Any inside scoops that anyone can share?
8:57:27 AM
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