Word: printers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Carolyn Fraser, a letterpress printer in Melbourne, Australia, adopts a different metaphor to explain the problem. "Verdana was designed for the limitations of the Web - it's dumbed down and overused. It's a bit like using Lego to build a skyscraper, when steel is clearly a superior choice...
...they had tried to haggle, and a stunning 80% were successful. "What you can do today is unbelievable," says Herb Cohen, an expert dealmaker and the author of the 1980 classic You Can Negotiate Anything. "Americans may finally learn that price tags weren't put there by the big printer...
...look now, but they're all around you. They're standing by the copy machine, hovering by the printer, answering the phone. Yes, they're the overworked, underappreciated interns: young, eager and not always paid. And with just 20% of the graduating class of 2009 gainfully employed, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, there are more and more of them each day. (You may even be one of them yourself...
...LiveNation. That stuff that the labels used to do - production, promotion, distribution - it's just not that hard to DIY now or buy off the shelf. It's the same with publishing. Amazon could become the LiveNation of the book world, a literary ecosystem unto itself: agent, editor, publisher, printer and bookstore. It probably will...
...Twitter updates - via a fax machine, which costs $119 if you don't already own one. Presto - to which, full disclosure, my husband and I were early adopters, each of us having bought a machine for one of our grandmothers two-plus years ago - is basically a color printer that dials into a server to fetch both personal e-mails and subscriptions to free newsletters like Wolfgang Puck's Kitchen. The machine retails for $149, with a $14.95 monthly fee. (Read "Technology and Culture...