Coming Attractions: December 28, 2007
Coming Attractions is a new 10blog feature to provide a look at content that we will be publishing soon. Expect to see it once a month or so.
Here are some of the things rising to the top of the stack:
1. An article explaining, in grisly detail, why dialup modems top out at 56 kbps. This will probably go live without images on Tuesday (New Year's Day), with illustrations to follow shortly thereafter. If things go better than planned, it may launch with all illustrations in place.
2. A map showing the life of a PIC microcontroller. This is considered complete, but of minor importance, so expect it to go live before long.
3. A map showing the countries that various country top-level domains (ccTLDs) belong to. This is only getting started now, but should be ready fairly soon. We will be launching a simple version as soon as possible, with a more powerful version (using a touch of Javascript magic) to follow.
This is only a sampling of the things currently percolating to the top. I wanted to share these specific items for two reasons. Firstly, they are all very near publishing, which of course is the point of these "coming attractions" posts (otherwise we would just publish a link to the massive "in development" list).
Secondly, they demonstrate some trends. The first trend is a gentle shift toward a "publish early, publish often" mentality, with more "not quite done" content being made public. The second trend is more mundane: we are trying (trying!) to start publishing something approximately every Tuesday, with occasional items on Thursdays and minor items (like the recent DRM-Free Music Directory update) whenever they come up.