Thank-you: 10,000 times
I’m sitting at the local car dealership using my MSI Wind over EV-DO and I just realized something amazing. Here at jkOnTheRun, we’ve just pushed past our 10,000th post! While some might view that as a writing accomplishment, I’m a little different.
I view it as 10,000 opportunities to reach out and have a conversation with you. 10,000 chances to enjoy discussion and opposing viewpoints on mobile technology. 10,000 relationship builders. We don’t just try to post news or hands-on info and have the conversation end. When we can, we chime in along with your comments and together we turn this blog into passionate community.
And that’s the other half of the eqution: you. I’ve often said that “without readers, we’re doing nothing more than writing a bunch of useless words.” The 46,500 comments left on the site, both positive and negative, add just as much value as those 10,000 posts. If not more. At the end of the day, we write the blog but you make it sucessful. Not us. For that, thanks! 10,000 times over. :)
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Congratulations Kevin and James!
Thank you for providing such a friendly source of knowledge and fun.
congrats, and i have to say i truly appreciate the level of interactivity that visitors get on your site.. here’s to the next 10,000!
Kevin beat me to this as I also noticed this first thing this morning. Thanks to each and every one of our readers who make this a true adventure each day.
Wish we could tabulate how many comments I’ve left here. I may also be approaching 10k. ;) And keep it up!
For random blogging stat comparisons, ZNF is up to 2,123 posts and 13,203 comments. Although, only 10% is actually worth reading. *grin*
Hi, congrats to both of you and thanks for being fresh and concise in your posts; just one blog between thousands of others that always repeat and repeat and … the same.
In honor of your post milestone, let me say congratulations. I have been following this blog for a fairly long time. You do a quality job.
And in honor as well, let us celebrate some other “Product Freeze” news, that a revolution in portable computing is on the horizon… and will start to show up this summer.
http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2009/02/02/product-freeze/
Feb 2nd 2009 Pixel Qi website quotes:
“We have been feverishly working on designing our first screen product We will be sampling our 10″ screens this spring and plan to be in high volume mass production this summer”.
“Also, while we have a high resolution paper-white black and white, we also provide, in the same screen fully saturated color fidelity – the same as a standard laptop screen – same color, contrast resolution, field of view etc.”
” In addition, by integrating the screen with the electronics driving the screen a 5-fold increase in battery life between charges can be achieved”.
**** AND they will first release a 10 inch screen SO you know what that will end up in… Yep, it will be in a netbook! Now, which manufacturer, and model will it end up in?
Of note, the ARM based units already have better power savings than the Intel units and if an ARM based unit, with Pixel Qi screen (hopefully with touch screen), and with an oS like Ubuntu based CrunchBang or another quick Openbox based LXDE distro (Openbox with a GUI), like U-lite, or another fast LXDE distro…
AND if these have 20 hours (OR MORE) of use on a 3 cell battery… well, that will be amazing!
I wonder what Intel is thinking about this development (and if they will be telling their OEMs to look seriously at using these screens FIRST).
Also, to ponder this. If the reality is, that this Pixel Qi Web Site’s declared Mission Statement / Vision Statement… comes true, then next year, at this time, we will be looking at a whole different mobile computing reality. CES will then be really really interesting to attend… as whoever is not playing this game, will be wishing that they were. Those that make the move will have folks 10 people deep all clustering around booths showing 20 hour PLUS netbooks running on what CPU and what OS? Well, Pixel Qi says that the OS and the CPU is meaningless, so what surprises are in store from that concept? Hmmm?
From: pixelqi.com/mission
“Pixel Qi has a belief on the future of the computing – it’s not about the CPU or the OS – It is about the screen”.
“Instead of focusing on higher speed (more MHz) and larger memory (more GBytes), we work toward new device designs by focusing on displays that we can read, as easily as paper – indoors and out – with battery life measured in days not hours”.
I can’t wait for summer.
AND I can’t wait for what coverage on your blog will provide as we start to see real Pixel Qi Screen based products with a real portable long battery vision start to appear.
You’re welcome x 1.
Long live jkOnTheRun! Woohoo!
Well thanks for reaching out to us for so long, the last 3 years have been much more exciting for me, having the chance to learn about all this great new stuff!
What a coincidence! Today is the the day when I’ve read 500 of your posts while sitting on the toilet! I’ve replied to 250 posts while doing the same. My wife would like to thank you for making her wait. :)
Congratulations guys. I’ve been reading your blog since I weighed 130lbs!