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WeWriteLike

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 ...

Thought for Food

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 ...

Live from Ipex: Presstek Unveils New DI Press

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 ...

Live from Ipex

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 ...

Live (On Video) from Kodak GUA 2010

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:

On User Groups

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 ...

Kodak’s User Group: Paneling

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 ...