Monday, March 19, 2007
2007 TAGA ATC Coverage
My good friend Dimitrios is blogging this years TAGA Annual Technical Conference on his PrintColor blog....
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Crunch Time
Blogging will be less frequent over the next few weeks as I put the finishing touches on my thesis. If you need something to read, check out Planet Printmode....
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
TimesSelect Free For Students
The New York Times has opened up their TimesSelect online pay-for-access columns and content archive to students and teachers. According to the Editor and Publisher, free access will be permanently granted to .edu email addresses: “It's part of our journalistic...
Friday, March 9, 2007
Really Bad Industry Awareness Marketing Ideas
After the disastrous discovery on Wednesday I have realized there seems to be a problem coming up with good ideas for industry awareness campaigns that will bring in talent and promte the use of print among the youth. To help...
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Shift Happens
Something to think about: I agree with David Lankes at Syracuse U, it would be nice if the supporting research was documented....
Industry Vocational Education
Patrick Henry provided feedback in the comments of my Industry Education post. He brought up some good points so I thought I would address some of them here. Henry starts by providing anecdotal evidence that we are failing to meet...
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Power League of Printing?
A sidebar in Larry Kroll's Whose Job Is Training and Education? An Open Letter to the Graphic Arts Community pointed to a marketing video produced by Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF): At GRAPH EXPO the Print and Graphics Scholarship...
Second Life's Printing Industry Center
Brian Regan of the professionals staffing firm Semper left a comment on industry education piece over at the PrintCEO blog on creating an industry presence in the virtual world Second Life. An industry presence in Second Life might be worthwhile,...
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Industry Education
Patrick Henry authored a piece over at the PrintCEO blog reacting to Larry Kroll's open letter in the 2007 PIA/GATF Forecast: Technology, Trends, Tactics regarding the state of vocational education in the printing industry. Kroll's letter and Henry's article are...
Friday, March 2, 2007
SharedBook, and more on Open APIs
I should point out that a company called SharedBook is developing a similar system to the Open API I wrote about earlier. They have developed a: unique, on demand reverse publishing platform to help businesses and consumers extract, manipulate and...
AIIM On Demand Hotels
If you plan on attending AIIM On Demand next month, you will want to book a hotel as soon as possible. You will be competing for space with the 20,000 runners expected to participate in the Boston Marathon takes place...
API to Print
A concept that I have been thinking about as I work on my thesis is the use of an "Open" Application Programming Interface (API) to a print production system. The API concept in itself is not a new method of...
