14-07-2019, 02:09 PM
I don't mind reading WIA news in AR, because I rarely look at the WIA website.
From reading around there are obviously quite a number of locals working on technical projects of varying degrees of complexity and other interesting things, but as far as contributing articles to AR, unfortunately some either have an anti-WIA viewpoint, or as I recall one saying he thought AR and printed magazines were an anachronism and seemingly for those reasons wouldn't contribute.
I subscribe to a number of printed and electronic-only magazines and bulletins, and I find that I read the printed ones far more closely and repeatedly. The mags lie around in the shack or lounge and get picked up often, whereas the digital versions tend to get skimmed once on arrival then very rarely looked at again. Arriving electronically means they turn up with everything else that needs attention.
Yes, editorially AR needs refocussing, including sourcing articles from overseas journals - electronic ones included - and more for newcomers and club news also would be a start.
From reading around there are obviously quite a number of locals working on technical projects of varying degrees of complexity and other interesting things, but as far as contributing articles to AR, unfortunately some either have an anti-WIA viewpoint, or as I recall one saying he thought AR and printed magazines were an anachronism and seemingly for those reasons wouldn't contribute.
I subscribe to a number of printed and electronic-only magazines and bulletins, and I find that I read the printed ones far more closely and repeatedly. The mags lie around in the shack or lounge and get picked up often, whereas the digital versions tend to get skimmed once on arrival then very rarely looked at again. Arriving electronically means they turn up with everything else that needs attention.
Yes, editorially AR needs refocussing, including sourcing articles from overseas journals - electronic ones included - and more for newcomers and club news also would be a start.