On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, George Raicevich wrote:

> How about posting the info to this MEMS group. I would be interested to read
them

Hi George,

That info would have to come from Ken Westra. I was merely
reacting on a question from him.

It would indeed be perfectly possible to 'publish' info or thoughts on
practical issues in the mems-mailing list, that's what it was
made for I guess (and it *is* being used for this). For me that would work
fine but I see many people ending up not reading the mailing-list anymore
because of too much 'noise' in the group (numerous mails with questions
genre 'where can I buy a dry etcher?').

A 'web corner' has the advantage that you only read things when you want
to (you have to know its existence of course) and decide in a glimp
whether it has something interesting for you. Of course, the problem is:
it has to be maintained/updated regularly and read by many people
otherwise it is not worth the effort.

A good example of such a thing is the slashdot.org site for
(mostly) linux-related news. People even talk about the 'slashdot-effect'
(i.e. when some issue is mentioned on the site, a lot of fuzz is being
made and it becomes a hot topic). Of course, since I presume there
exists a much larger critical mass of Linux-hackers than of
mems-scientists/engineers, the comparison doesn't hold all the way.


> > On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Ken Westra wrote:
> >
> > >   Is there a MEMS journal that will accept papers that are 'shop notes'
> > > ? What I mean by 'shop note' is a paper that discusses some small
> > > practical item or aspect of a process or commonly used piece of
> > > [...]
> > >   The reason I ask, is that I have some useful bits of information that
> > > I think would be useful to the MEMS community, but they are not worthy
> > > of full papers or offical letters. So, I am looking for an published
> > > outlet for these pieces of information.



Dirk De Bruyker

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