April 19, 2006
LE1600 lust
For the last two months, I've been drawing my cartoons on the M1400 PC Tablet [the cartoon above was the first Tablet cartoon I published], which Motion Computing no longer makes.
It has been replaced by their new LE1600 model, which I now find myself lusting after [naturally].
The spec diffferences between the two models are posted here in PDF. Enjoy.
[PS. Thanks to Ron Hayes at Motion sales for sending me their specs.]
[NOTE TO SELF: I wonder if Motion would ever hire me to blog for them professionally, the way Scoble does for Microsoft. I bet I could do a pretty good job.]
Posted by hugh macleod at April 19, 2006 5:36 PM | TrackBackClearly you'd be a good candidate as both a blogger and someone who uses the product in their blog.
That got me thinking. For how many products/services could you effectively blog? Is there a law of diminishing returns in respect of exclusivity? I'm not sure there is. It's another case of blogging capitalising on maximising productive time. Time which in a corporate setting would be wasted on office politics and meetings.
On the creative level, I think the question is slightly different. Can the Hugh Macleod (or anyone else's) blogging voice bestow an imprimatur of quality and renown on a series of unrelated blogs or does there come a point where a company rightly or wrongly says we don't want to be another Hugh Macleod (or anyone else's) blog. Any thoughts?
Posted by: john at April 19, 2006 8:03 PMForget about working for Motion...........you should work for Playboy........you and your fancy drawing.
Posted by: shoelover at April 20, 2006 6:15 AMHugh,
in any case, I'm rather happy that you are drawing again! That declined for awhile while you were busy don the Hugh Train - now that, too, was great, but your art was what originally drew me to this site, and still is the reason why I keep coming back.
And, even though it's no longer as minimalistic, it's still "your" style - the "predator of human energy" for one is great. Keep that slightly cynic attitude going! ;-)
(If the trend with cool motives continues, I might have to buy new blog cards or shirts.)
What does it mean "blog for Microsoft"?
I believe he denies that it's part of his job at Microsoft.
But then again..
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/please-send-me-stuff/
Would Microsoft fire Scoble if he stopped blogging?
Posted by: DeanG at April 20, 2006 3:13 PMbut can her boobies
save my soul?
Probably. :-)
Posted by: Robert Scoble at April 22, 2006 1:59 AM