Drafts of possible stories for OhmyNews, autumn/winter 2006

Updated for autumn/winter 2008/2009

This text is a way to reach search spiders around future news stories and may be
coherent.(see previous version). http://www.learn9.net/hs06.html This is not for "lean
back" consumers of news though stories will be on offer. Meanwhile you can "lean
forward" and check other sources with this timescale as a prompt. Since an OhmyNews
conference on citizen journalism I have written several stories about UK trade shows.
The same ones come round again so I will write similar stories. The progress is that the
UK is now accepting broadband in a way comparable to where South Korea has been for
a while.

The websites I work on have recently not been updated as frequently as when I did less
blogging. They tend to be more static but with more significant or at least considered
content. I will start to put draft news on these pages or versions of future stories after
the events. Also more comment and speculation in the blogs. the eventual reports for
OhmyNews will be based on past events and verifiable facts.

ISO Survey
probably 9000 in use in China, 27000 in use in Japan
both using PDCA
UK/US still not very interested
learn9

web to print
same story as for drupa but with UK examples
Total Print 14-16 Oct
wwwatford

ePUB
format link to open source / creative commons content
Online Information 2-4 Dec Sony Reader
AS.com

BETT- UK bandwidth
BETT- Silverlight, any signs? (Not much in 2008)
BETT- Byron report, is the panic over?
Jan 2009
AS.uk

Leadership at Learning technology

The maturity model may be revised to show management buy-in
Jan/Feb 2009
learn9/AS.uk

Eurekster, what is happening?

seems not as widely used as previously
learn9

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version for Scribd May 2008

Hello Spiders (draft news)

http://hellospiders.blogspot.com/

This text is a way to reach search spiders around future news stories and may be
coherent.(see previous version). http://www.learn9.net/hs06.html This is not for "lean
back" consumers of news though stories will be on offer. Meanwhile you can "lean
forward" and check other sources with this timescale as a prompt. Since an OhmyNews
conference on citizen journalism I have written several stories about UK trade shows.
This is written just after the Adobe webcast for financial analysts and ahead of the drupa
print event in Dusseldorf. Dates cover the period till Learning Technology early in 2009.
So if the websites and/or blogs are not updated as quickly as they should be, do some
searching yourself and treat this as a guide.Some of my writing may be fiction. May 1
Adobe Financial Analysts webcast http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/invrelations/
2008_analyst_mtg/2008analystmee ting.html Shantanu Narayan is pleased with the
strategic planning, aligning resources with trends. So this could be a real time take on
what is happening around web video and mobile devices. However, other events are in
another worldview it seems. Hard copy has more or less vanished in San Jose. Acrobat
Services dotcom site will cover more around Flash and AIR http://www.acrobat-
services.com

May 1/2 Futuresonic, Manchester UK http://www.futuresonic.com/08/ideas/ Social

networks etc. Archive update expected soon.

May 5/6 Networked Learning, Halkidiki, Greece.

http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/ Will there be a practitioner takeaway
from an academic conference? continues on blog and website around learning and
quality http://www.learn9.net http://learn9log.blogspot.com

May 8-11 Libre Graphics Meeting, Wroclaw, Poland

http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008/index.php?lang=en Open source is good
enough for dtp and a lot more. Strong presence ahead of drupa.

May 15th Discussion on Leadership and Change http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/events/

13778/ Update on learning organisations. I hope to connect to ideas about quality.
May29-June11 drupa Topics spread around other events to be continued on WWWatford,
mythical destination http://www.atford.co.uk Adobe Live somewhere with Creative Suite
and Acrobat June 16-17 Lisbon Forum on Quality and Innovation of Learning in Oeiras
Looks like a genuine approach to connect quality and learning

10 July – 12 July Designing Safe Living, Lancaster

I hope to talk about assurance, both for quality and safety. 9-11 September Alt-C Leeds,
award for Learning Technologist of the Year

14-16 Oct Total Print/ LCC Futures Check out jumbled ideas post drupa. What is
"seamless XML"? AcrobatServices UK site will cover more on actual events in UK For
example Haymarket Group and Guardian, what they say and what they do
http://www.acrobat-services.co.uk http://readg.blogspot.com/

2-4 Dec Online Information Olympia London http://www.online-information.co.uk

Publishing panel could look at e-books

14-17 Jan BETT compulsary technology Olympia London Will they have woken up to
Open Source? Will Acrobat with Flash be out? http://www.bettshow.com/ 28th-29th Jan
Learning Technology Olympia London Expect "leadership" to feature as part of an
updated maturity model. http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/

Previous stories for OhmyNews

UK Info Chief Takes Aim at Security Breaches http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/

article_view.asp?article_class=4&no=382408&rel_no=1 Adobe proposes

Flash for Learning

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/
article_view.asp?article_class=4&no=381717&rel_no=1

U.K. Education Aims at Universal Broadband http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/

article_view.asp?article_class=4&no=381513&rel_no=1 Wikipedia's Future Is

Global and Mobile

http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/
article_view.asp?article_class=4&no=381242&rel_no=1

China Leads Continued Growth in ISO 9000 http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/

article_view.asp?article_class=4&no=381092&rel_no=1

London College Mixes Communication and Print http://english.ohmynews.com/

articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=4&no=380817&rel_no=1

Mars Opens PDF to XML Connections http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/

article_view.asp?article_class=4&no=372521&rel_no=1
Open Source Graphics Meets Quality Assurance http://english.ohmynews.com/
articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=4&no=361083&rel_no=1

Bloomsbury and the Struggle With Web Economics http://english.ohmynews.com/

articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=4&no=357882&rel_no=1

Adobe Pitches Scenario for a Video Web http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/

article_view.asp?article_class=4&no=353662&rel_no=1 Survey Notes a

Model of E-Learning Maturity http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/

article_view.asp?article_class=4&no=343902&rel_no=1

May 4th 2008 Will Pollard will.pollard@gmail.com

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below here from 2006

I am getting to think in headlines so start with these. Probably the editors will think of
their own. I am beginning to repeat myself as I have been writing for OhmyNews for a
couple of years. Stories that assumed too much previous knowledge have been rejected
by editors so I may carry on repeating things that need to be explained. I am registered
as press for Digital Print World and Online Information. The stories will be ahead of
these or soon after.

http://www.digitalprintworld.co.uk

http://www.online-information.co.uk

Round about now the print industry is clearly enough in a digital context for a shift in
perspective to be clarified. A lot of knowledge authority is tied up in books so there are
ramifications in how this is recorded.

Adobe skews away from Print

London college still adjusting to "Communication"

This is now submitted

Previously
Print morphs to Communication

Open Source catches up with Quark 4

JDF still a mystery for print customers

At IPEX I did a report on Open Source, mostly based on a presentation by Gee

Ranishana from Dalim. I am aware that Scribus is making progress and Linux is
appearing on many desktops. I can't see Dalim or Turning Point Technologies on the
exhibitor list but there may be other info. Maybe Open Source now has the same sort of
mindshare as Adobe and Microsoft so no longer needs to be represented at trade shows.

Open Source discussion tends to be very aware about XML so the JDF options are not
mysterious.
So far all the articles about JDF sem to be just about internal workflow. Surely the
customers will find out about it eventually? JDF is not a new feature in Actrobat 8, it just
appears that way as nothing was explained about Acrobat 7. It could be deja vue all over
again. Quark job jackets are promoted to some extent.

Previously
Open Source arrives at the XML IPEX

Flash fails to engage with information

Text still scores for ease of editing

My guess is that there will be almost no sign of Flash at Online Information. There is no
Adobe stand.

My opinion is that text is actually still the best way to engage attention because it can be
easily copied or edited so someone else can combine it into their own understanding or
offer a different version. Flash is best known for really annoying adverts. It may be
useful for protecting copyright as there is no right click and save. Otherwise my guess is
that the PDF preference will continue, with editing rights turned on.

see blog and comment above

Google seen as 'legit' at Online Information

"Oh No It Isn't" say print publishers

Stories developed in December will be well into the pantomime season. The determining
precedents for copyright will be established around music and short videos. There is
some base now of acceptance for the Google approach to scanning hard copy. How large
that base is will be clarified by an event such as Online Information.

Previously

Google Books Rescues the Backlist

Stanford boosts scholarship on the web
Google keeps publishers awake at night

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There will be updates for websites and blogs

acrobat services uk
acrobat services com
WWW.atford

ipex2002.blogspot.com
learn9log.blogspot.com

will.pollard@gmail.com