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List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

It’s winter in Sault Saint Marie, MI, along the U.S./Canada international border; what else is there to do but shovel snow? Word "czars" at Lake Superior State University (LSSU) "unfriended" 15 words and phrases and declared them "shovel-ready" for inclusion on the university's 35th annual List of Words Banished from the ...

Tekgraf Suddenly Closes Doors on December 16th

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

WhatTheyThink has learned that Tekgraf, a master distributor for products from Epson, HP, Canon and others and serving a base of some 150 resellers, very suddenly closed its doors on December 16th. Apparently there was no advance warning to employees or partners. WhatTheyThink has been attempting to contact ...

Is the Worst Over? Maybe.

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Recent forecasts by leading media companies and industry consultants suggest that the worst of the recession in the advertising and marketing industry may be over.  However, many of the same forecasters are saying that the growth of advertising spending will be painstakingly slow over the next five years. According to Publicis ...

2010: the Tipping Point in the Future of Reading?

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009



New Fuji Xerox Presses Indicate the Future

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Last week there was an interesting announcement from Fuji Xerox of two new digital presses that are being introduced into the Fuji Xerox markets. The new printers are the Color 1000 Press and Color 800 Press. These two presses are very interesting, as they appear to be moving the Fuji ...

"Yes, We Need Graph Expo Every Year!"

Friday, December 11th, 2009

The following was submitted as a comment to the post entitled, Andrew Tribute Asks: “Do We Need Graph Expo Each Year?”. The writer is Gene Gable, the former president and publisher of Publish magazine, president of Seybold Seminars, and publisher of The Seybold Report. Because of its length and relevance, ...

Delay eBooks by four months? What are they thinking?

Friday, December 11th, 2009

On December 8th, Simon & Schuster announced a new strategy that would place ebooks between hardcover and paperback in their sequencing of book releases, delaying ebook availability by 4 months. Yesterday, in an email exchange with eBookNewser, Simon & Schuster vice president of corporate communications Adam Rothberg indicated ...