E-INK, E-BOOKS TURN A NEW PAGE

Two professional forward-thinkers displayed projects during Monday’s Hot New Technologies session aimed at capturing the "paper-like reading experience" in electronic form. The surprise was just how far e-book developments have come in a few short years. Also, an Intel developer offered a tantalizing peek at the wired house of the not-so-distant future.

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TOWARD ASSET SHARING

According to a report on digital-asset management, 1999 was the year of "point solutions," while 2000-2001 will be the years of "asset sharing." Speakers during a Tuesday session discussed how they plan to make that jump by creating integrated DAM solutions.

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PRE-PRESS: LOOKING BEYOND PRESS

During an industry outlook panel, system developers for newspapers looked back on the year and ahead to their futures. They sometimes found the two parties moving in different directions.

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BUZZ, BUZZ, BUZZ

In a lively Pre-Press "Buzz Breakfast" Tuesday morning, discussion centered on two breaking technology issues--digital advertising and the industry’s march to a 50-inch web width.

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DIGITAL WORKFLOW:
PRACTICES VS. PREJUDICES

The ongoing task of bringing all employees onto the same page in an increasingly digital workplace is as much about attitudes as it is about opportunities, panelists agreed at a Monday discussion of digital workflow. Topics ranged from maximizing "creative assets" in the ad department, to tracking production, to electronic tearsheets, to ad transmission. But the messages consistently focused on the need to change attitudes among workers and customers to take full advantage of opportunities.

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THE SCIENCE OF KNOWLEDGE

Introducing his keynote address on the amorphous topic of knowledge management, Lotus Development Corp.’s Scott Cooper told the story of a woman who had a very difficult legal problem that stumped several lawyers. While the anectode didn't relate directly to newspapers, the prospect of recapturing the estimated $5,000 per employee lost to "dysfunctional" information environments certainly got attendees' attention.

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TOOLS BOOST QUALITY EFFORTS

Staffers from the El Paso Times, a commerical printer and the Democrat & Chroncile in Rochester, N.Y., discussed how new tools--a color-management system, digital-proofing software and digital cameras--can help boost quality and cut costs.

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' 21ST CENTURY CITY'
WELCOMES CONFERENCE

Early morning thunderstorms greeted attendees as the SuperConference began in a city that Alberto Ibarguen, publisher of The Miami Herald, called one of only two in North America already part of the 21st Century economy.

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BEST PRACTICES WINNERS

On the first day of the SuperConference, staffers from three newspapers were recognized for receiving TechNews Best Practices Awards for innovative practices in editorial, business and new media. The Boston Globe was honored for developing an automated site-traffic reporting system for its online yellow page advertisers, while Cox Newspapers' CoxNet took honors for deploying a spec-ad sharing system across its wide-area network. A homegrown page-tracking system also garnered an award for The Providence Journal, and in the editorial category, staffers from Syracuse Newspapers took honors for developing two homegrown systems -- one for editorial budgeting, the other for page tracking -- in only a few months.

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