Seeing the Future – In Color

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We’re still recovering from the HOW Design Conference in Austin last week, where temperatures hit 107. After the ice packs melt, we’ll post a summary of interesting things we heard there. In the meantime, for those who have color-focused jobs (or color-fussy clients), you may be interested in the work of the Color Marketing Group: […]

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“Where the #%*! are My Pictures?”"

Image by Cayusa via Flickr Video Review: Reichmann and Resnick’s “Where the #%*! are My Pictures?”” June 28, 2009 byJoe Decker Several times a year I teach a one-dayworkshop on optimizing images usingLightroom at the local art league, and in doing so I’m often asked for a good book recommendation for someone learnning Lightroom. As […]

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Neoliberal Digitalism?

Susanne Gaschke‘s bookKlick – Strategies Against Digital Stultification describes how the increasing prevalence of the internet and new media influences the culture of knowledge and education. She criticizes an infinite optimism of media, politics and science towards this phenomenon and decries an uncritical handling of the internet. Gaschke characterizes people following the paradigm of new […]

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Akamai Technologies and KIT digital Enter into Strategic Alliance

Image via CrunchBase KIT VX Video Management Platform to be Offered with Akamai Solutions KIT digital and Akamai to Collaborate on Joint Sales and Marketing Efforts on a Global Basis CAMBRIDGE, MA and DUBAI – June 29, 2009 – KIT digital, Inc. (OTCBB: KDGL), a leading global provider of Internet Protocol-based video management technologies, and […]

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GridIron Flow Ships with Surprise Additions

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GridIron Software this morning announced on a conference call that Flow, the one-of-a-kind visual file management, workflow and time tracking tool that has been in development for three years, is now available for purchase or 30 day demo from the GridIron site. In addition to a demonstration of how the software can be used to […]

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Metadata as source of digital anthropology

Image via CrunchBase One of the most interesting things I am focused on right now is how to use the metadata that is increasingly abundant on web 2.0 sites. My main focus is tags on places like Flickr, and Technorati. This form of tagging has the rather clumsy name of a folksonomy. AFolksonomy is a […]

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How To Save The Newspapers, Vol. XII: Outlaw Linking

byErick Schonfeld on June 28, 2009 Of all themisguided schemes put forth lately to save newspapers (micropayments! blame Google!), the one put forth by Judge Richard Posner has to be the most jaw-dropping. He suggests that linking to copyrighted material should be outlawed. No, Posner does not work for the Associated Press (which also has […]

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misunderstanding the culture of piracy

Image via Wikipedia Producers losing $300m by taking wrong turn Digital content producers and entertainment companies in the Asia-Pacific region are losing hundreds of millions of dollars by misunderstanding the culture of piracy, a conference on digital asset management has heard. Rather than running head-first at a problem that conservatively costs the industry more than […]

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Digital Xpress boosts performance with ADAM Software

Digital Xpress boosts performance with ADAM Software download this press release in word DOC & PDF format DEINZE, June 29 , 2009.Graphics and IT business builds on existing system with state-of-the-art DAM platform As a business that prides itself on its technological know-how in the field of marketing, prepress, IT and graphic design, Danish company […]

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