| Draft articles October 2005 These are notes for future articles for OhmyNews on technology etc. based around trade shows mostly in the UK and/or online. Stories will also appear in Acrobat Services .com and UK and on the IPEX blog. The previous page from June is left as is. With Gary Trembling photographs I have also done stories on Sidmouth Folk Week and London Open House. Notes for these are at Inxpress. The issues to be written about are probably much the same for 2006 as previously. Maybe this is just my guess. My main interest is still around print and IPEX next April. I think the print industry has reached a stage where the role of computers and the web is accepted. These draft pages are there to build up spare copy that can become an article as and when it seems ready or when there is an event to lead a story. I would like to get some feedback on the drafts so the versions in Ohmynews could be quite different. I previously wrote that I thought the word 'ubiqitous' was not as widely used in the UK as in Korea. Since then I have come across it more often. Something similar may be happening with time. It seems more overlapping somehow. With the Open House article we could use photos from previous years. Maybe the same thing will happen with trade shows. Convergance is another word. I'm not sure people know what it means. One way to report it is to mix up different trade shows. At this year's BETT, Kathryn Macaulay called for PDF to be taught in UK schools. I put a story on the Talkback board but need to rewrite it to get on the main pages. It could be a story ahead of Online Information. Online Information has very little apparently about Acrobat. Adobe are not there. However PDF files are common. Kathryn Macaulay works at Bedford High School where they have multiple copies of InDesign and Acrobat etc. They actually use the 'collaboration' features with notes and highlighting. My impression is that most libraries cannot yet afford this or else there is some other problem. The British Library were not at BETT but they have masses of images. After Online Information there could be an article on what they offer. The dates and websites for relevant shows end of 05 to beginning of 06 are Seybold Chicago / Print Ad Tech Both now over Digital Print World Seybold New York Cancelled nov 13th ipex inward mission Seybold San Francisco Cancelled. Medialive now working on Web 2.0 Online Information BETT Learning Technologies Animex CeBIT Content Everywhere The Wireless Event The Seybold events could have followed a pattern - Chicago to establish what the print industry is capable of ; New York to look at publishing other than web ; San Francisco to focus on web. I think Adobe Live took some energy away from Seybold. Not sure why Adobe seem to prefer it that way. I think they are most convincing in a wider context. Ad Tech featured Google University as Platinum Sponsor. Mostly about advertising. Possible link to Online Information discussion about Google Scholar, scanning libraries, copyright etc. First article was a bit provocative re universities. Online Information could get more connections. Yahoo now trying something else with more publisher support. Digital Print World is another chance to look at how far the print world and web have merged. The London College of communication will have a conference. This year BETT was way in advance of Learning Technology for web adoption. Longmans just had books, maybe one or two with a CD. Maybe nothing will change. Animex is a digital fringe for Animated Exeter. Many issues come up as a sideline. For example, World Cyber Games as at CeBIT. At CeBIT 2005 Xerox showed a digital workflow for print without much sense of mystery. This will be a good source ahead of IPEX. Gary has drawn my attention to Content Everywhere. There is hardly any mention of hard copy as part of this. One test of IPEX will be how well print can be presented as part of the discussion. Wireless is a new name without the word 'LAN'. No longer just for techies. 'Transparency' is yet another word that will crop up. There is a related site at learn9.net covering quality and learning. At the moment an aspect is to look at morphosis as a way of interpreting quality, based on a book given out by OhmyNews. The Google University idea helps with this. Will Pollard will.pollard@gmail.com |
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| Sundown 2005 demo scene in Budleigh |
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| Actual stories published already
Chicago story Guardian (links to print) Accountancy Age j |
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| Update November 2005
I have sent in an article on Open Documents ahead of Online Information. Based on Social Source event. Now working on a draft about Stanford and search engine knowledge. More at blog//learn9log.blogspot.com |
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