Whatever Happened to Ira Tiffen?

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Ira Tiffen has transitioned from forging glass filters to casting attention-grabbing artwork. When I last spoke to him, for an article I wrote last year about filtration, he was semi-retired and working on a book that would have been the ultimate filtration reference for the motion picture industry. Yesterday I sent him an email asking […]

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It’s Not About the Tools, It’s About the Strategy

Image by luc legay via Flickr Given thevast and growing number of online toolsavailable to web workers, choosing which to use can seem overwhelming. This makes it easy to obsess more about the tools themselves rather than the strategy for using them, as if by choosing the perfect tools you can guarantee the success of […]

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Making the Case for Document Management in Challenging Times

Thoughts on how end-user organizations are looking at the economy and IT investments, and the impact that this is having on document and content management decision-making. The presentation concludes with recommendations to those in the document management channel on how to more effectively position their companies and offerings. http://aiim.typepad.com/aiim_blog/ […]

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JustSystems Continues to Drive XBRL Standard Forward

Image via Wikipedia JustSystems announced the launch of its Beta program for xfyXBRLReport JustSystems, the largest independent software vendor in Japan and a worldwide leader in XML and information management technologies, today announced that Diane Mueller, vice president,XBRLdevelopment for JustSystems, has been appointed to the Board of Directors (BOD) ofXBRL International, Inc.(XII). In addition, the […]

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Versions, Variations, Renditions Oh My!

On a couple of recent Digital Asset Management consulting projects a few clients asked me how they would distinguish different uses of the same image in a DAM system. How do I relate my Camera RAW image asset to my Hi-res RGB JPG? How do I relate my main image to another image that is […]

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HBO’s Alzheimer’s documentary

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Starting this Sunday, May 10, HBO Documentary Films is going to begin air a 4 part documentary series on Alzheimer’s disease called The Alzheimer’s Project. Normally I probably wouldn’t promote or post about an HBO film but this series looks to be a bit more important than most. Alzheimer’s disease is a cruel brain disease […]

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Want an ikan monitor? Enter their contest.

If you are in need of a small external monitor for your video shoots or maybe a small supplemental monitor for your edit suite then head over to ikan corporation and enter their Wish I had an ikan contest. From the ikan website: If you can create a short narrative film either featuring an iKan […]

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