Links from Experimentality , recent update

During my talk at the Experimentality conference I showed some weblinks for sites that could be benchmarked. The Deming cycle is a learning approach and I think it has to be applied to something to make much sense. Recently it has been explained to me that email or other web interventions have to be positive to retain much attention. The audit has never been very welcome even in person so online there may only be space for looking at positive feedback on variation. 

So here is an emphasis on some encouraging things I have found (in order as on previous slide)

Experimentality has a page for updates, easier to follow than the home page if you just want news

They are adding photos to some previous posts so the report on events is improved. Most new photos are on Picasa and they have a Creative Commons licence. I think clarity through Creative Commons is really useful. I sometimes assume reuse is ok and it turns out not to be.
 

Cloudworks has been updated twice over the summer as far as I can follow it. There are tabs to allow wider columns for comments or references. It may take longer to explore. A recent cloud is about how communities could develop around Cloudworks

I am trying to make more links and have updated clouds for IPEX and Online Information. The printing industry ( or communication industry now the London College of Printing has changed name) is in some relation to education so can probably find some space on Cloudworks. Quality is a topic that is already included.

The Networked Learning Conference have added video from the keynotes by Etienne Wenger & Yrjo Engestrom

Nothing embedded, just links to external sites, but the use of video is a development. Previously I found it hard to add graphics to the discussions and spent some time in the sandpit messing about with media. Perhaps it just is the case that academics assume text. I also have to accept that Adobe people assume video. All you can do is hope for some sort of exchange over time. I can get fed up in either direction.

There is not much news about a couple of the sites but still something expected later in the year 

The CQI has launched a site for MoSO- a model of sustainable development. I am too close to this one to asess it well. I tried some video from a Kodak Zi8. the lighting is terrible.

The Critical Management site is still hard to navigate  I think but there is now a site for a conference next year. 

Stream 17 looks interesting - "Digital Culture - Looking Through the Past Towards The Future" . You have to download a PDF to get to the text but maybe there could be versions online as well. Only one version of the text has to be fixed by April.  

Komori raises questions on social media and marketing budgets

I am trying to report about Graph Expo in Chicago. Or repeat some outlines from IPEX in Birmingham. So far seems interesting enough. Not sure who reads this blog but comment welcome.

Comment welcome especially from people at Haymarket. Bloggers are not well situated to ask direct questions about media. But during the week different opinions can be found. Printweek has a view on print but this is not the only Haymarket publication. Will business to business move online? Will Printweek be the last to report it, should this ever happen?

Komori have published a guide to social media

( search on just Komori finds far too many results by the way )

found through Tweet by JennaKempie 

There is a PDF for download from the Komori site. It mentions the cost of printing as an issue.

There is no Komori stand at Graph Expo. At IPEX they had a lot of space and  printed the show daily newspaper.

What to think?

QR codes in Chicago - #QRChicago -

There seems to be interest in QR codes as part of Graph Expo, as there was at IPEX.

This could be of general interest. What use to make of them? The print industry will be capable of presentation, but why? 

The Twitter tag is #QRChicago -

PDF and variable data, contnues on IPEX 2002

I have started posting again on IPEX 2002

Recently I have mostly posted here, as it helps to integrate various things. There will be a lot of detail round Graph Expo in chicago during next week so please look at the IPEX 2002 blog if this is of interest.

The blog started in 2002 and so the name stays the same. Some posts may be on the drupa2008 blog. And there may be some links back here. Print shows do not change that fast. Some of the topics are much the same no matter what year it is. I realise I am in Exeter UK but I am trying to think Chicago.  

Questions for Chicago

My three stories from IPEX (Birmingham UK earlier this year) were unfortunately right at the end of the English news website for OhmyNews International. They did get about 1000 views each and were included on Google News but they were not edited or checked out. On previous occasions the headlines were often changed.

Graph Expo in Chicago is about to happen so I will experiment with writing news at a distance. I tried this once before for Ohmynews and it worked out ok. The three stories are around an event and background.

First event is a non-event. Adobe not there. Nor is Quark. So composition has gone. Page make-up seems to be part of document engineering that starts online and can also contribute to a print workflow in whatever format required. Adobe at IPEX found some space to talk about variable data in PDF. They seems not to have a stand but it will be interesting to hear if they turn up in some form. (Apple not there either, they stopped with drupa)

Second event, Heidelberg announce they seek a digital partner. Sometime in 2010. So there could be an announcement in Chicago. If not, someone should ask a question. I noticed that Xerox had a stand just next to Heidelberg and also shared some data. Both spoke about integrated workflows. Xerox could demonstrate detailed production information about each Heidelberg machine. If Xerox is not on the list of Heidelberg possibles then someone should check out both booths and speculate.

Third event is video. Kodak gave journalists (and accredited bloggers) a Zi8 to record inkjet. I cannot help but be impressed. Got the focus wrong to start with but the Zi8 is now working well. Also Kodak and Oce both had studios. A lot of video went straight to YouTube as well as dedicated sites. UK trade magazine Printweek also had some video recording but there has not been as much coverage of this since as I would expect. there was some discussion on the future of business to business publishing. Printweek continues in print as well as online. I discovered that What They Think is online only. Andy Tribute did not do much of a text blog at IPEX, he was talking to camera for What They Think. I will be checking out video next week. If the budget for video increases there could be less page ads in print. It may seem strange for a print show not to rely on print promotion but maybe it is a sign that a mix of communication options has been accepted. Print is still in there somewhere. 

another look at Experimentality

Trying to catch up again on the Experimentality project

There has not been much interest in my youtube clips

and I can't find much else

xperimentality ? maybe the # is wrong

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but there are some photos on Picasa

Creative Commons licence

so this fits with my idea to look at cases following the look at check/study. Web sites as examples of systems.

Problem that this Picasa aspect is hard to find, but a chance to relate to social media.