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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
This weekend, I came across a story about a new popular Web site called I Write Like, which claims that, via some copied-and-pasted text, it can determine which famous author you write like. I’m skeptical about these things, especially when reading passages like:
The site's traffic has soared in recent days ...
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Friday, May 21st, 2010
Now, I don’t usually have any kind of beef about things like this.
(mmm...beef....)
I am not one to be a crab.
(...crab legs....)
Nor do I usually carp...
(...roasted carp with pancetta...)
...or whine about the facilities at trade shows.
(...poached halibut in a white wine sauce...)
I mean, I’m not overly self-important or egomaniacal...
(...Eggo waffles with ...
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
I write this from a press conference at Ipex at which Presstek has unveiled (and is showing elsewhere on the show floor) the new Presstek 75DI Direct Imaging press. The new press, designed for short-run offset color printing and to bridge the gap between offset and digital printing, is said ...
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
The wind whipped round my head as the ferry approached the facility. My partner and I were greeted by MacPherson, the assistant warden. I was led past cells filled with some of the most dangerously insane and violent individuals in the printing industry. Rachel Solando, a marketing VP for a ...
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
Video snippets of the Kodak Graphic Users Conference are seeping out onto the Web; here is a link to a very short bit from Monday morning's K-Zone panel discussion:
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
Remember a day, a day before today, a time when user groups roamed the land, basking in the warm valleys and gazing into what could have been a bright future? In the various regional editions of Micro Publishing News magazine back in the mid to late 1990s, we used to ...
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
Blogging live from the Graphic Users Association conference (sponsored by Kodak) in beautiful Vancouver, B.C. Just finished a K-Zone panel discussion moderated by Noel Ward, with Lisa Cross (Graphic Arts Monthly), Justin Searles (InfoTrends), Mark Michelson (Printing Impressions), and myself. I am told that video will be posted some time in ...
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