- My name is Jeff Lazerus and my professional experience includes marketing, graphic design, prepress and prepress management; variable data printing and digital printing management. This blog is my personal portal for online experimentation. I write about creating your own space on the web, new marketing technology, the print business, and metablogs. Opinions are my own, and I hope someone else's as well.Contact me: jeff@jefflazerus.com
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The Shocking Tale of BookLocker v. Amazon
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
Posted in Printing Tagged Add new tag, Business, Print on demand, Printing, Publishing, Publishing and Printing, Self-publishing 1 Comment
Spam Comment of the Day
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I now spend more time deleting moderating spam on this blog than I do actually writing. Annoying as hell. Although, I found the wording of this one to be pretty amusing:
“The first thing that will happen will be the termination of Lustig’s disastrous buy allegra grab me and pelted towards the door. The policeman there grabbed at me— then folded
Just read that a few times. I removed the link but left the formatting for humorous effect.
Happy Holidays!
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Where have I been?
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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
How to Make a Blog on Wordpress using Network Solutions
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.
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Posted in Blogs, Bloggers and Blogging, Experiments Tagged Domain name, Domain name registrar, Experiments, ICANN, Marketing, Network Solutions, Upgrade, web, wednesday, WordPress 6 Comments
How to Make a Wordpress Blog Run Faster
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
Posted in Blogs, Bloggers and Blogging Tagged blog, bloggery, blogging, Content Delivery Network, Experiments, Publishing, Weblogs, WordPress, WWW 11 Comments
BREAKING NEWS: Print Publishing to Go Electronic in 2010
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!
The Degradation of Prepress Employment, Part 1
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
Posted in Printing Tagged Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business, Employment, Printing, Publishing, Publishing and Printing, Research, United States Leave a comment
Just When I Thought Twitter Was All Noise
Dr. Joe Webb, print industry economist at whattheythink.com tweets some pretty dramatic news:
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.