News and Recent Posts on Home Page

The News + Recent Posts section on MarkStefanchuk.com is more of an experiment than anything else. I wanted to test some assumptions about news feeds. And at the moment it's simply a collection of feeds (including my feed) from websites I found interesting. There are several articles on News Feeds and Aggregators so I'll leave it up to you to do your own google search.

This technology has certainly not caught the attention of the MicroStation community. I noticed however, that Autodesk encourages their employees to create web logs and publish them. I'd really like to see the same from Bentley someday.

Yes, yes, the newsgroups are excellent sources for help and information. But, these are reactionary. User in trouble, post a solution. Web logs on the other hand are proactive. Bit head gets cool and amazing idea and tells the world about it. Discovery is not hidden away until some poor sucker attempts to draw a wheel but can't so he emails Bentley and support tells him, "No, our software doesn't draw wheels, only circles." But wait, user does a google search and discovers a web log on drawing wheels with links to examples. Problem solved, customer happy.