Yessiree, this week upFront.eZine is 700 issues old. The number is just about incomprehensible to me, but it's the kind of number you get when you publish something pretty much every week since 1995 -- with appropriate breaks for summer and at Christmas, 'natch. The newsletter began as an irregular supplement to the CAD++ newsletter, my monthly print publication that focused on programming and marketing in CAD.
Then the cost of printing, postage, and paper overwhelmed the incoming subscription fees, and so upFront.eZine replaced CAD++, first as a bi-weekly, and then weekly. The e-newsletter was "all-e," in that it eschewed physical contact addresses; the only contact info I permitted was an email or a (then new) Web address.
I am proud to say that upFront.eZine was the very first independent CAD newsletter distributed electronically. I recall fondly when the number of subscribers hit 100; now the number wavers just under 12,000. Some special thank-yous are in order:
- Evan Yares for pointing me to the software that made sending the newsletter to thousands of email addresses so much easier for me.
- Yoav Etiel for his word of advice to me on focusing the newsletter's content: "Tell me what I don't know."
- Joel Orr for his words of encouragement, which tended to arrive when I most needed them.
- Readers who respond enthusiastically with letters to the editor, outraged or otherwise -- and who donate funds to help cover my salary. Special tip-of-the-hat to SolidWorks for their $3,000 donation this year!
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In this week's issue, we have for you...
1. Arup MassMotion
- Running MassMotion
- Practical Uses
- Q&A
2. Updating Civil B
Part 2: Autodesk Responds
(Next week, CivilB replies, in part 3)
3. Out of the Inbox and other regular columns
You can read all about this week's business of CAD at upfrontezine.com/2011/upf-700.htm
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