It seems as though so many want a piece of us all these days and we have to carefully pick and choose where we commit our time. Today I finally acted on Dave Mendoza's strong urging to join recruiting.blogs.com. Actually it was more like threat-o-gram, but very effective even without the possibility of getting hurt and knowing Dave isn't a menacing type guy. But no way would I want him to give up on me and throw me out like week-old trash, like his last message eluded. Up until now, it was a start and stop go-round on putting up even the most basic profile.

Not a day passes without an email from either Dave, Shally, Lou, Dr Sullivan, et. al., telling me what I'm not doing right. So, threat or otherwise, it's time to join the nuevo recruiting world and give this vehicle a spin.

I'm considering this as an experiment. Just to try out the effectiveness of blogging, I will throw out this question and see what comes back: How many of us pioneers have made even one hire resulting from writing a blog? OK, 2 questions: Will blogging on this forum lead me to my next LED material science whiz?

Maybe the NEON profile will help.