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PUBLISHER’S LETTER
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Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
Leo Simpson, B.Bus., FAICD
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We launch
SILICON CHIP On-Line
This month, we are officially launching our
new website and the on-line version of SILICON
CHIP. Some years ago, I wrote an editorial stating
my opinion that the Internet was a money vortex
and that few companies had made money from
their web activities. That is still largely true for
many companies so this new venture represents
a leap of faith for us. However, the new site has
been going since December 2003 and already the
indications are favourable.
“SILICON CHIP On-line” is available at our existing website address at
siliconchip.com.au (no need to type in the “www” bit). There you will find
all the issues of SILICON CHIP going back for about two years. As time goes
on, we will extend this.
About a week after this print issue goes on sale, you will find the articles
also available on-line, together with our other services such as software
and PC board downloads, article indexes (features and projects), errata and
so on. Soon, you will also be to be subscribe to the print edition and order
back copies on-line, as well as purchase books and binders.
Creating and maintaining a website as large as siliconchip.com.au and
publishing the on-line edition is not a zero-cost exercise. Nor is the production of our regular monthly print edition. Either way, these costs have
to be recouped, so the bad news is that this on-line service is not free. In
principle, the cost of reading an issue will be the same, whether you read it
on your computer screen or buy the print edition issue at your newsagents
– or subscribe.
Some articles are available free while with the others you can read the
first page and then you have to reach for your credit card to gain access to
all the articles in a particular issue. Please have a look at the site and you
should it find it pretty easy to follow.
The on-line edition of SILICON CHIP is being produced by Web Publications Pty Ltd, who also produce a number of other on-line magazines. They
are pioneers in this area, having produced Autospeed, an on-line only car
magazine, for five years.
Initial reactions indicate that most of our existing readers will probably
prefer the print edition – you can read it at any time (in bed, on the train or
bus, wherever) and you can file it away for future reference. On the other
hand, for people overseas, those in remote areas and those who want immediate access to magazine issues (rather than waiting for them to come
through the mail), the on-line service will be preferred.
By the way, our site is fully searchable so you should be able find any
article we have done, providing you feed in the appropriate key word. In
fact, feeding the appropriate key word into www.google.com will often
bring you to the relevant article on siliconchip.com.au. Failing that, do a
search of our article indexes and you should find what you want (provided
we have published it).
So have a good look through the site. If you are a relatively recent convert
to SILICON CHIP, you should find many articles that you have not seen before.
Eventually, all the articles we have published will be available for access.
This is great because it means that a great many articles will no longer be
lost and forgotten, as they presently tend to be.
We hope you like our new website and the on-line edition. And if you
think some aspect could be improved, don’t hesitate to email us.
Leo Simpson
www.siliconchip.com.au
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