It’s been almost 9 months since I started writing this blog. Although I have written only 25 articles so far (some of them not long enough to call ‘articles’), I think the blog has gone off in too many directions. I initially wanted to focus only on technical issues. But I seem to have written a lot of non-technical stuff. Here’s the complete list so far:

1. Influencing User Memory to Improve User Experience
2. Keeping Tabs on Your Competition: Lessons from the Google-Bing Copying Episode
3. Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing and Multi-core Processors: A Golden Braid for the Modern Internet
4. What’s in a Name? The Eternal Quest for the Perfect Product Name
5. Should Engineers also act as Tech Support?
6. The Driving Forces behind the Smart Grid
7. Lessons from Irrationality
8. What is the Smart Grid?
9. What is the Smart Grid? — Part 2
10. The Incandescent Light Bulb
11. Revisiting Product Naming
12. Smart Grid Videos
13. Will the Smart Grid Cross The Chasm?
14. The Signal Processing Industry and the Smart Grid
15. The Smart Phone Market and the Car Market
16. An Epiphany about Reading Books and Reading about Books
17. Consumer Electronics versus Utilities
18. Global Vision for the Smart Grid: Will the Grid be the same everywhere?
19. Are Smart Meters hazardous to your health?
20. Dominion’s Smart Pricing Plan
21. Understanding Demand Response
22. Networked Lighting
23. The Producing-Consumer Paradox
24. Information and Meaning
25. Creating Great Products

By the way, I borrowed this idea of a blog recap from Ribbon Farm. Blogs tend to get lost pretty soon and the archive lists are not very user friendly. These recaps help bring some stuff back into the open.

I can broadly classify the articles so far into three categories:

1. Smart Grid
2. Product Management/Management/Marketing
3. Technology Trends and their effects on our lives

I was quite surprised by the feedback I have received to some of the articles. The ones in bold above are the ones that generated the most feedback. Going forward I plan to concentrate on technical topics. The strange thing is that I have not yet touched upon some of the topics that I initially wanted to write about. Our lives are so integrated with technology that it is hard to ignore the affects and think about it. If I come across some issues on which I can add a new perspective, I will still write about them. But for the next few months, I will concentrate on the technical side of Smart Grid communications.