Monday, February 26, 2007
Apricot Tan
I was doing some color usage research today and stopped by Pantone's website to find out what's new in color this year. Pantone has this section on their website called Colorstrology by Michele Bernhardt that is a blend of blend...
Sunday, February 25, 2007
WhatTheyThink Buys PrintPlanet
The guys over at WhatTheyThink have been busy over the last week. First they buy the assets of Electronic Publishing, now they have bought the online community PrintPlanet: "Without debate, PrintPlanet.com is the industry’s leading forum community and a natural...
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Housekeeping
Over the weekend I did some general housekeeping. I changed the location of my feeds. If you use a feed reader that is aware of basic HTTP Status Code you shouldn't have to do a thing, you should automatically be...
Friday, February 23, 2007
Industry Measure Media Spending Study
The folks at The Industry Measure AKA TrendWatch Graphic Arts are doing a study on Media Spending. If you do that type of thing, help them out by filling out their survey: http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=U26342PCDKA3...
Stout Seeks Cross-Media Graphics Professor
The University of Wisconsin-Stout (my alma matter) is looking for an Assistant Professor to teach courses in Cross-Media Graphics: Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: teaching undergraduate courses related to graphics and media technology, cross-media marketing systems,...
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Internet Advertising Bureau in Print
The Internet Advertising Bureau, the trade group helping online, Interactive broadcasting, email, wireless and Interactive television media companies increase their revenues is launching a print magazine: The Interactive Advertising Bureau, the leading trade association for the Interactive Advertising industry, today...
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Solid ThINKing?
Xerox has post a homemade look a like video on YouTube: Is this their attempt at trying to do viral video marketing? The digital print hardware geeks will want to check out the new hardware glimpse at the 2:28 minute...
Monday, February 19, 2007
What Electronic Publishing Thinks
Congratulations to Randy, Wes, and Eric over at WhatTheyThink on their purchase of Electronic Publishing. WhatTheyThink leads the way in the internet delivery of printing industry commentary and information. Hopefully with this acquisition, Electronic Publishing will get a much needed...
AIIM ON DEMAND 2007
Registration for AIIM ON DEMAND is now open. You can get a free Expo Hall pass if you register by online by April 15th. The event takes place April 16-19 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. I attended On...
Replacing Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has finally hit the streets. I have been using the Beta to mange importing and organizing photos, but I don't use all the application's fancy bells and whistles to justify dropping $299 on the shipping version. Apple's...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Wiki-enabled Print Publishing System
Wiki and other web-based collaboration platforms have been on the rise over the past few years. Wiki platforms have proved to be a successful tool in socially driven open content environments. The best known wiki, Wikipedia has accumulated over 1.6...
Friday, February 9, 2007
Help Wanted: PrintWiki Logo
Last week a classroom full of RIT New Media Publishing students told me that the current PrintWiki logo leaves a lot to be desired. Not much effort went into the logo, so I wasn't too much of a surprise by...
On the Road with Adam
I was just chatting with Randy Davidson of WhatTheyThink about new media and opportunities for using online video. He pointed out Quick Printing magazine's Video Network. It's almost completely empty, but it looks like they have built a decent infrastructure...
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Planet Printmode
One of the great things about RSS and Atom-based content syndication is that it allows users to easily aggregate and mash-up data to create different representations and applications. I have been playing around with the popular PlanetPlanet (Venus Branch) river...
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Let's Talk Print?
Today the Digital Printing Council of PIA/GATF released a new online forum for the printing industry: PIA/GATF members have a new platform from which to speak their minds as the world's largest printing association unveils Let's Talk Print, a new...
Saturday, February 3, 2007
Tools
Earlier this week Spanish Print blogger Jorge Estebaranz tagged me with the what do you use to work? meme. My main computing is done with a Apple PowerBook G4 Ti that has been my life partner for the past 4...
Friday, February 2, 2007
TR004 and TR005 Open for Review
CGATS has just released the first drafts of TR004, Graphic technology — Color characterization data — GRACoL proofing and printing on Grades 1 and 2 coated paper , and TR005, Graphic technology — Color characterization data — SWOP proofing and...
Thursday, February 1, 2007
TAGA ATC 2007
The 59th TAGA Annual Technical Conference is coming up fast, it will be held held March 18-21 in Pittsburgh. This years conference is being hosted by PIA/GATF, who have been providing management to the organization for the last few years....
