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Words Fail… 17 Jan 2013 | 11:19 pm
Last year, I wrote about Korzybski’s semantic theories—especially the problems generated among humans who confuse words (symbols) with the objects they represent. Since I’m in the business of words, I...
Silver Cloud / Dark Lining? 17 Jan 2013 | 05:16 am
At the risk of channeling the late Andy Rooney, I have a bone to pick with cloud computing and its adherents. Like all business trends, “The Cloud” (capitalization required) has achieved meaningless b...
Print Different 30 Dec 2012 | 05:27 am
This is typically the time of year when columnists, pundits, and bloggers look back at the past year, and ahead to what the next one may bring. Assuming the planet will not end altogether on December ...
Paper Power 21 Dec 2012 | 05:24 am
Elsewhere in this space, I’ve written about the environmental misconceptions surrounding print and paper. As it turns out, the print medium is potentially[1] the most sustainable and least problematic...
Fear of the Dark 12 Dec 2012 | 05:14 am
Admittedly, Halloween would have been a better holiday for this post, but since superstitions have no fixed season, I thought I’d dredge up an old one—namely, printing as a “dark art”—and ask if those...
What Makes Paper So Special? 14 Nov 2012 | 06:30 am
When discussing the merits of print communication, pundits like me tend to fixate specific applications like publishing or business communication, but don’t say much about the medium itself: paper. Th...
First Impressions 14 Nov 2012 | 04:47 am
It never pays to resist or deride innovators—especially in the world of print. The clerics and inquisitors who warned us about the dangerous innovation of Herr Gutenberg (himself a pious man) ended up...
Consumer Media Choices: Paper or Silicon? 30 Oct 2012 | 03:52 am
Not all that long ago, our communications choices were limited to print and some form of analog broadcast. Computers changed how we created media, especially for the printed page, but not the medium i...
The Perils of Print+Mobile 26 Oct 2012 | 04:28 am
Earlier this month, I journeyed to Chicago for this year’s Graph Expo, the annual trade ritual for the struggling print industry in North America. Occurring only a few months after drupa—the worldwide...
Tweet, Play, Love: the Allure of Mobile 17 Oct 2012 | 04:13 am
As I recover from the blast of activity surrounding Graph Expo,[1] it occurs that everyone I met there seems to be fully committed to doing business on mobile platforms—even if they have no idea why o...
