
- Snotty Gobbles — seriously, “snotty gobbles”
Below is crap writing at its finest; that is, at its worst. (Did you see how I did that? I used the phrase “at its finest” in an ironic way, where the literal definition of a word or phrase is intended to actually mean the opposite of what is being said.)
From a local “Integrated Branding Communications Company”:
“All of our Brands are crafted around a strong narrative that is competently delivered on by management and the organization, is relevant and scarce to the customer, and, compared to the competition, offers a sustainable competitive advantage.”
Maybe I’m just not very hip to the whole “Integrated Branding” scene, but what exactly does this mean? I’m imagining these people in a large Theatre of Branding, where “strong narratives” are “crafted”, perhaps something like:
The Jeff Lazerus Online Museum of Marketing Gobbledygook and Hogwash is proud to bring you lovingly hand crafted integrated communications built around a strong presence inside of and around the various brand crafted narrative which has leveraged our experience in integrated leveraging of managed narrative properties built around a strong craft built organizational advantage to the customer and the constituents of the clients’ customers, with a foundation in message delivery that goes straight to the heart and mind of hand crafted brand business meta-branding delivered through and around the leverage that only our powerful preposition and noun repurposing technology can provide around of in with.
Bangor, Maine based BookLocker has won a suit against Amazon.com which claimed Amazon violated anti-trust law. The complaint was that Amazon used intimidation and other mafia-like tactics to shut down a publisher’s ability to use their own printer by attempting to force these publishers to use Amazon’s own POD printing business, BookSurge (now called CreateSpace).

You will respect Amazon's authoritah!!!
Let’s say you are an independent publisher, a niche publisher or a small digital printing company. Read More »
In February 2009, the print shop I was working for closed its doors. Since then, I have been considering numerous or even infinite options for my next career move. Unfortunately, the prepress and printing industries ain’t what they used to be. Companies who have looked at digital printing (an area of my expertise) or have moved fully into that realm aren’t interested in paying an expert fair market value for that expertise considering “the current economic climate”. These days it’s all about cost saving. Read More »
1- Buy a domain name (like www.jefflazerus.com)
2- Buy a hosting account on Network Solutions
3- Install Wordpress out of the “Tools” panel in your account manager area
4- Login and post, but don’t expect it to work the same each time, and always expect some new useless (?) upgrade from Wordpress at random times.
UPDATE 11/05/09:
Network Solutions now allows you to buy a Wordpress hosting package, without shared hosting or the high end virtual server, for something like $4.00 US. If you just want Wordpress on a nice stable platform, this could be a good solution. If I were going to add WP to a commerce site that already exists I would seriously consider this option.
Posted in Blogs, Bloggers and Blogging, Experiments | Tagged Domain name, Domain name registrar, Experiments, ICANN, Marketing, Network Solutions, Upgrade, web, wednesday, WordPress | 
FASTER! FASTER, dammit!
Optimizing Wordpress using a CDN (Content Delivery Network)
My blog had been running, if that’s what you could call it, at speeds approximating a gimpy turtle walking in mud uphill… you get the idea. So I started investigating the technical methods used by pro web developers to make their blogs load fast. Read More »
Sorry about the sarcasm, folks. Click here for the story.

Courtesy of Gizmodo
It doesn’t seem likely that an Apple Tablet, although fun and interesting, even a “game changer” the way the iPhone was, will “save” the print industry. It seems like another way to bypass the page. I have to get one!
Posted in Experiments | Tagged Experiments | Prepress employment is going away, and it’s being replaced by the content creation side. Not only are content creators doing more of the prepress part of the job, but automated systems are also replacing human beings in the workplace. Yes, a robot has taken my job.
Seeing this was kind of a shocker for me. Shortly after I posted this, Prepress Pilgrim started asking some pretty serious questions about my post. In a comment on the Prepress Pilgrim blog, Dr. Joe Webb pointed to his own article and data where he got the original numbers. I’m not sure why he says “Enjoy!” at the end of his comment. I don’t really “Enjoy!” reading about how our jobs are being done by someone else, at a lower wage and without our expertise. Hmm. Read More »
Awesomest comment spam comment of the day
In my continuing series of comment spams that are totally genius, I give you the following, copied with no editing whatsoever:
MY GOD! Not leave it with what? WITH WHAT???
Sorry pal, no decisive insights on this blog, and I really don’t have enough traffic coming here to warrant the spamming effort you are putting into this.