Derogatory comment about industry leads tech guru to prove his point
OK. You might want to put this column down without reading it.
At the very least, close your door so no one hears the venting. It might be safest just to turn the page now.
Yesterday afternoon, on a website visited by several well-known Adobe-related staff and trainers, I posted that I had discovered a simple work-around to the Snow Leopard PDF driver issue. Read the rest of this entry
When I was younger, I owned a graphic design business. It started out small, but grew to a few employees and bigger clients as the years went on.
As much as we enjoyed our work, like most businesses, making a profit was a priority. One of the lessons I learned pretty quickly was that the faster our computers, the more money we could make. Our output could double or triple with an investment in new computers and software.
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I’ve noticed an interesting trend at newspaper conferences lately. It seems like the sessions I’m leading related to online journalism are drawing the biggest crowds. Last week in New Orleans, a packed house listened attentively as I told them about the latest tools available to news media sites.
Two days later, we wondered if anyone would show up in Orange Beach, Alabama for a Saturday morning session titled, “Online Journalism: What You Need to Know.” After all, it was Saturday and the convention was being held at a beach resort. No worries, though. The room was full when it was time to begin.
12 times since 1997, the top names in design and technology training have gathered for an event unparalleled in the newspaper industry. On October 7-9, 2010 these trainers will gather once again for the 13th session of the:
Institute of Newspaper Technology Read the rest of this entry
By Richard Pyle, AP Writer
NEW YORK — Roy Steinfort, a veteran newsman and former vice president of The Associated Press who turned the agency’s radio operations into a service providing news to millions of listeners worldwide, died Sunday at age 88. Steinfort died after a short battle with cancer, said his widow, Patricia Milton. In a journalism career spanning some 40 years, Steinfort went from covering sports in his native Kentucky to running a weekly paper to chief of all broadcast operations for the AP. He retired from the world’s largest and oldest news agency in 1986.
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Hi Kevin,
I have an SD card that was taken out of a camera and placed in another without first downloading the photos. We tried using PhotoRescue (3 years old) to retrieve the photos. We were able to get some but most seem corrupt. Do you have any ideas how else to retrieve these photos? It is an 8GB card with approximately 1,000 photos. Read the rest of this entry
(CNN) — Now that they’ve gotten a peek at it, publishers of books, newspapers and magazines are hoping Apple’s forthcoming iPad tablet device will breathe new life into their struggling industry.
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| Tom Curley addresses KPA members. (Ed Reinke, AP) |
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Journalists should be willing to fight for strong laws protecting open access to government even as the news industry struggles in a weak economy, the top executive of The Associated Press said in a speech to a Kentucky newspaper organization Friday.
Tom Curley, chief executive of the AP, said that strong open-access laws are important items in the “journalistic tool kit,” but that journalists have often taken them for granted. Read the rest of this entry
After seven years at the helm, Pam Johnson will step down as head of the Western Kentucky University School of Journalism and Broadcasting at the end of the school year.
A study room in the new Boyle County Public Library will be named the Schurz Study Room, in honor of the capital donations made to the library by the Schurz family. The Schurz family owns Schurz Communications, the parent company of the Advocate-Messenger.
