Welcome
Welcome to the new Mestrelab blog! I feel that, before getting on with posting, I should try to explain why we have decided to create a new blog and make the commitment of maintaining it from here on.
Our motivation is not that we feel there are not enough blogs yet on the internet, nor that we had nothing to do over the Easter weekend. Rather, this blog is being born because of the many questions we are getting from our users, on our travels, about Mestrelab, about how the company is doing, about what we are working on, about our commercial activities, and about many other things which we expected to only be of interest to us. There are many ways to answer these questions, and a blog is a good way to do it, not only for those asking, but also for those who may want to know or be interested, but never get the chance to ask.
Of course, we already have Carlos’s blog, but that is a more scientific blog, created to discuss aspects of Analytical Chemistry which are of interest to Carlos and to our users, and we want to keep it that way, to avoid wasting anybody’s time. The Mestrelab blog is different. It is not scientific, but more lighthearted, somewhere to visit on a break from science, research or, god forbid, corporate meetings. It is not a one person blog, but rather a vehicle for anyone in Mestrelab to share their thoughts, for us to report on company progress and ideas, to tell stories about our trips and conferences, and to highlight aspects of our products which we may think our users may be interested in reading, or hearing, about. Also, the blog should be a good way to have an open dialog with our users, to bounce off some of our ideas before we get on with implementing them, and to gather feedback, and we hope that many of our users will contribute with comments to keep it alive and, more importantly, make it interesting (with the exception of Shakespeare, Brecht, Joyce and a few others, dialogues are generally a lot more interesting than monologues).
So, if you have something to tell or ask Mestrelab, in public, and you cannot wait for the next conference, here we are! We look forward to hearing from you.
