I just finished conducting annual reviews with our employees. They, we--all of us--get our paychecks from our customers.

For more than 22 years, I've been dropping rocks down the well of the gear industry's public opinion. Most every issue, I drop another rock. Sometimes I think I hear a faint splash, but most times I just wait.

Gear Technology was founded 22 years ago on a very simple principle: to provide the best possible educational articles and information for the gear industry.

In the past, we have often asked readers to let us know what they were thinking. But this past issue, we must have struck a nerve.

If you read the press clippings (even our own), and listen to the comments of many of the major exhibitors, you'll hear that Gear Expo 2005 was a resounding success.

Most firms in the gear industry we've talked to over the past year are making more gears than ever, generating more sales, and filling up their schedule books into next year and beyond.

Observations on the Olympics, Tony Blair and Gear Expo.

Publisher Michael Goldstein pays tribute to Marty Woodhouse

Winter in the gear industry seems to have come to an end.

Publisher Michael Goldstein announces the launch of sister publication Gear Product News.