There are quite a few ESRI blogs hosted at ESRI.com but there seems to be no easy way to keep track of them. I would have thought that they would be aggregated with the ESRI Blogs page, but that is even more confusing. Three blogs are list on the right, but none of those appear in the aggregator on the left. The two that appear in the aggregator don’t aren’t in the link list on the right. And I don’t see the ESRI Support Blog listed at all. The whole ESRI Blog page has been kind of hit and miss since it first appeared, but if they could just aggregate all their blogs on that page and list them on the right that would improve it immensely.
Actually adding OMPL might be handy too and a RSS feed for all the ESRI blogs (like how Planet Geospatial does it) should be offered also.
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Melissa Maples
// Jul 5, 2007 at 3:49 pm
LMAO James, love the rollover caption to the image.
I too have been confusted by the ESRI blog page. ESRI is usually good at making this look very glossy, but their blogging pages are ugly and very poorly organized.
At least content seems to be good…
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Lefty
// Jul 5, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Lets all get on the same page here.
If ESRI put the same effort they did on the UC, their webpages would kick ass.
But they seem to stick to this crappy coldfusion website (crappy by even CF standards). I’ve seen good looking Roller websites and I wouldn’t put this on near the top.
I do agree, they need to aggregate their blogs. Sun/Microsoft/IBM all seem to do a much better job at this.
And Manifold still sucks ass.
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James Fee
// Jul 5, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Had to put the Manifold dig in there Lefty huh?
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Lefty
// Jul 5, 2007 at 4:06 pm
I’d say more but they make us sign NDAs.
Sign the NDA or you aren’t invited
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Alvin
// Jul 5, 2007 at 4:10 pm
I’m happy with the blogs, but I too would like them better organized. All ESRI blogs should be on blogs.esri.com.
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Erin
// Jul 5, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Wow, that Manifold NDA stuff is bizare. I can’t imagine ESRI asking for users to sign a NDA before going to the UC.
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top
// Jul 5, 2007 at 11:29 pm
@Lefty: You said “us”? Are you going to be on the Manifold UC? Or is that a pose?
@Erin: I have been on one of the Manifold UCs and their asking for NDAs is completely warranted. There is a boatload of technical bits being disclosed and a lot of technical issues being openly discussed, many of them concerning future developments and thus pretty sensitive. Having to sign an NDA is a bit unusual but it is no big deal and when you realize that NDA is simply a price to pay to avoid turning the real technical talk into the usual marketing fluff you get pretty much everywhere else (”we are committed to serving our customers and making the Earth a better place,” bla-bla-bla, you know how it goes), you gladly pay it.
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Rob
// Jul 6, 2007 at 4:53 am
Where did you get the pic of Jack telling us SP3 would be out mid Jan?
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Bill
// Jul 6, 2007 at 4:55 am
@James
You have raised the bar with that graphic! I’m laughing as I type.
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glenn
// Jul 6, 2007 at 8:13 am
Yep,
I’ve also never been able to figure that one out although I’ve seen this with our companies as well (like Autodesk) although ADSK has done a better job at aggregating their bloggers. I think it likely has to do with people’s blogs simply taking off, then the company tries to bring them together under one umbrella.. obviously having a corporate blogging policy in place should be on some company’s agenda. The fact that there’s blogs like those published by David Maguire (http://gismatters.blogspot.com/),
Rob Elkins http://myesri.blogspot.com/, and even the ArcPad Team Blog (http://arcpadteam.blogspot.com/) all hosted on blogger and not referenced on ESRI’s blogs home is really odd.
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James Fee
// Jul 6, 2007 at 8:39 am
Glenn, I can forgive them for not putting the blogspot ones on there because technically they aren’t official blogs. ESRI doesn’t seem to have personal blogs on their site which is much different than how other companies do it.
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KoS
// Jul 6, 2007 at 8:46 am
I miss Baghdad Bob!! They should have given him a show after all the hard work he did during the second gulf war.
Always gives me a laugh when he said, there are no American forces in Baghdad and we are getting the stuffings knocked out of us trying to enter. Just as he makes the statement, a M1 rolls by behind him
KoS
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Cellulose
// Jul 6, 2007 at 9:38 am
You just need to drink more of their Koolaid for the blogs to make sense… it’s like government work. You’re not truly a career beauracrat until the government policies and directives start making sense…
Though, I wonder if that’s still true. It seems like the latest set of policy updates are a lot more comprehensible than last year’s…
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matt m
// Jul 6, 2007 at 10:54 am
Well, this might be a good business opportunity for you Mr. F. If I were you, there would be an unsolicited proposal heading to Redlands next week.
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RandomRat
// Jul 6, 2007 at 10:59 am
The graphic depicts one of the best actors from Bollywood, Sanjay Dutt..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Dutt He seems to fit the profile for what James had used…
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James Fee
// Jul 6, 2007 at 11:13 am
Thanks for the link RandomRat. Classic stuff….
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