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Some of the visitors may recognize that I a write a newsletter and occasional articles for Sensorsmag.com, formerly the website for Sensors Magazine. The magazine stopped publication of the paper version at the end of 2006; it’s all online now.

The website, Sensorsmag.com and the Expos sponsored by them, continue, bigger and better than ever! So, too, I believe, are the resources they bring to measurements.

They have a searchable online database of technical articles that is rich in useful information about sensors uses and a whole lot more. OK, some of the articles were not the best, being thinly disguised marketing prose from equipment suppliers, but even among these, non-peer reviewed stories, are some gems of technical information.

We picked some of them and have been posting links and descriptions about them in the database at our site, TempSensor.net, along with similar listings for other online resource articles. (at last count we had reviewed and posted nearly 150 articles!)

The articles are organized by sensor type; just click over there and find out more than you ever wanted to know about temperature sensor details.

We are doing the same at Measurement Databases, but the going is a lot slower. That’s because there are so many stories scattered around the Web and it been mostly a solo effort until now.

We encourage visitors to visit and suggest links, especially to the “tech gems” such as article reprints, white papers, online courses and tutorials about measurement and measurement devices that dwell in the depths of corporate and other websites. They seldom see the light of day (or a listing in a search engine); we’re changing the situation by shining a new spotlight on them

As I see it, it is a true win-win-win situation:

The organization or even an individual wins because their documented technical expertise gets broader coverage being listed in our resource databases, and… each new listing is featured as a title and working hyperlink on the front pages of our sites for a day or more.

That, in turn, gets picked up by the dozens of spiders and web robots that search our sites daily! More links to their websites and more visibility for their technical expertise.

Prospective and existing customers win because they can more easily find the information they seek. It’s referenced in more places on the Web and our website traffic continues to grow improving our rankings as some of the best technology resources for measurement on the Web. (About Temperature Sensors and TempSensor.net already have first page placement on many search engines!)

We win since we grow our strong technology links wider and deeper.

So, far we have not seen any search engine that can deliver better resource information than human-reviewed ones, like ours!

When we grow, we earn more from our advertisers and can afford to continue to grow even more.

So, again, I thank SensorsMag.com for a great web resource for anyone involved in measurement. You can search their article and news databases to see for yourselves. It’s enabled us build a measurement resource or two.

We have already done it for Temperatures Sensors and have posted links to the real gems from Sensors’ and other websites on our site. We are doing it for other measurement devices at Measurement Databases and MeasurementMedia.com. (The latter website focuses on resources related to Publication, Standards, Meetings and Education related to measurement and measurement devices)

I could use your input, too!

Thanks for reading,

Ray Peacock

TEMPERATURES.COM, INC. publishes information about measurement devices and measurement on its websites. The sites have articles, directories and news to foster competent measurements & analysis in industry & science. Sites are free. Submissions by visitors are encouraged and reviewed. Sites as of August 2007 are: lehos tecHeadlines, measureNEWS, About Temperature Sensors, TempSensor Directories, TempSensorNEWS, Measurement Databases, (MeasurementBlog.com)MeasurementMedia.com and MeasurementDevices.com