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Where have I been?

In which Lazerus describes his first movement away from Ink-on-Paper.

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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. [...]

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How to Make a WordPress Blog Run Faster

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.

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BREAKING NEWS: Print Publishing to Go Electronic in 2010

Sorry about the sarcasm, folks. Click here for the story. 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!

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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. [...]

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Just When I Thought Twitter Was All Noise

Dr. Joe Webb, print industry economist at whattheythink.com tweets some pretty dramatic news:

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Internet advertising is officially not real

This is from the U.S. Small Business Administration‘s business.gov site concerning advertising your online business, and I quote: Advertising and marketing on the internet is regulated very similarly to the real world HA HA! Too bad, internet! You’re not real, as I had suspected all along! Sorry, feeling a bit cynical today. P.S. What’s with [...]

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Why Printing Matters

Again and again I am going to post articles about why I think printing is important, until the internet swells at its seams and finally realizes that it is NO MATCH for the superior power of ink on paper! The book you see to the left was one of the biggest jobs I ever had [...]

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Validation: Why Good Design is Good Business and More About Newspapers

Image via Wikipedia My new friends at Tunicca have a post about Jacek Utko with a video of his presentation at the TED conference. Utko’s presentation is in itself worth watching, and once you are on the TED site check out some others as they are ALL very thought provoking. Assuming you want to think, [...]

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New Media is Replacing Old Media: DON’T JUST SIT THERE, GET ON IT!

A rare cohesive and and cogent argument with hopefulness, new and improved: NOW WITH FEWER TYPOS!

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