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. 

Adobe and Acrobat, not much news

I am still puzzled about Acrobat 10. Also the Adobe share price is a mystery. Why did it fall on growth results?

A Forbes blog suggests there could be an upside as Creative Suite will continue to hold market share

However, there remains risk to our estimates. In the future, Adobe may not be able to deliver incremental software features that are compelling enough for buyers to upgrade and such failures could further hurt its market share. There could be a downside of 5% to the $36 Trefis price estimate for Adobe?s stock if its market share were to decline to around 38% by 2016, instead of around 42% that we forecast.

Thing is, no mention of Acrobat. just Photoshop Dreamweaver Indesign, and Flash. The technology platform has been Postscript and PDF. Maybe this was long ago. Maybe Acrobat sales don't matter in any model.

but in terms of compelling features to upgrade, should there be some sort of story about PDF and Acrobat if 10 is expected this year? 

DIY art is on Facebook, links to photos

Trying to find other photos from DIY it turns out that there is a Facebook group. Should have been obvious but there it is. 

Links to loads of photos, maybe more video later. This is working out well. I have added my own ones, including how to find it.

Water Lane is behind the canal, find the Welcome Inn and it is not much further.

Meanwhile my Tweets with C_Chilvers_Phot are getting more productive

 

I did actually meet him at the Boston Tea Party recently. He understands Foursquare and is mayor of several places but we managed to arrange a meeting just by Tweet. Not sure he finds each Tweet I send so there may be repeats. Basic theme is how to expand awareness of DIY through social networking. The next #likeminds has a focus on  film and music but maybe this is just too easy. The issues are around copyright for sample content. There are often clips of film and music convention allows a track or two to be copied. But so far image rights in galleries are often more closely protected. I can't see how social networking could work with visual content unless this changes.  

Quick, get to DIY soon before the gallery has a preservation order and things change.

Or, always possible, other galleries observe and adapt.

How to find DIY and a light test

There are now three videos from the opening night of DIY

 

lighting test, not sure of the proper title for these flowers but i will visit again next week. In daylight so there could be a better result.

finding DIY from  Welcome Inn

from Salmon Poll Lane

or look for Water Lane on a map. Let me know if you can follow these vids on a phone. Possibly a waste of bandwidth, better to place in memory.

Print Is Dead - Haymarket source

This is pretty close to an official moment. I have found views on Linked In that the business to business publishing scene is moving online. But this one is published by Haymarket through the Wallblog, linked to Revolution.

Of course Haymarket can publish any number of different views. We can all join in with comments. Tomorrow Printweek in print may say something slightly opposite. But this is a Haymarket publication and there must be some sort of editing. So I think this is worth noting.

Acrobat 10 what is happening?

Adobe have had a financial meeting and it appear Acrobat 10 will turn up sometime in the fourth quarter. But why? What features? Sometimes I think the Adobe view is that the PDF upgrade income is automatic. They only need to promote Flash for the future.

A Google search can only find  comment on the previous meeting in June.

extract from transcript

Shantanu Narayen:

Mike, what we are seeing is a lot of Acrobat usage right now within enterprises to do what we call critical document workflows. The integration of Acrobat and acrobat.comis ripe area of innovation and opportunity for us to continue to deliver value to custom­ers. Delivery of PDF files across mobile devices is becoming an increasing use case for us. So, multiple innovations are on the drawing board and we are excited about the new version that as we said will come out later this year.

Maybe something will turn up. Apparently the fourth quarter ends in November. So perhaps Adobe will release some info eventually.

MOSO site will be live soon, Deming updated

MOSO, a model of a sustainable organisation, should be public soon. The evaluation site as been

It could also be found from the main CQI site through Deming SIG in Community.

I think this will be a definite step ahead. The CQI has started to use a blog and expand the learning operation through social media. This site should work ok but needs a lot of feedback and development. The Deming group are trying topresent Deming views in a way that makes more sense for the current audience and situations.

I took some video and have loaded three short clips to YouTube

The moso channel will include other video or edits from the launch meeting.

also some Flickr

I still need to complete the descriptions but have included  possible breakout rooms for both Cloudworks and LinkedIn. There may be a lot more people at the next meeting, both to do with learning and with communication.

Late already for Sundown, text tweets follow #sundown2010

http://twitter.com/sundown2010

Not sure what to contribute but i am taking my XP laptop and sony reader. also a Kodak camera. They may understand mov files.

Bandwidth a bit limited last year. Expect text tweets as will789gb. Some will be location based as in saying where I am.

The closer to the beach the less digital the art. Gallery with frames is almost the last shop. So location could have meaning.