Comments on: Commodity presses http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/30/commodity-presses/ by Jeff Jarvis Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:40:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Adam Hodgkin http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/30/commodity-presses/#comment-349099 Adam Hodgkin Tue, 01 May 2007 06:29:20 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/30/commodity-presses/#comment-349099 Yes but there is also some very particular history to this relationship. Do you remember accounts of Richard Desmond goose-stepping round the table and saluting Heil Hitler in front of startled Telegraph execs when it seemed that they might be bought by a German company? Greenslade spots the legalistic language in the news release: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2007/04/barclays_to_desmond_we_dont_wa.html Ousourcing the heavy lifting? It makes every kind of sense on the web also. Amazon's S3 will be treated as a subscribable-Heidelberger-press for the web by companies that dont need to maintain their own servers or server farms. Yes but there is also some very particular history to this relationship. Do you remember accounts of Richard Desmond goose-stepping round the table and saluting Heil Hitler in front of startled Telegraph execs when it seemed that they might be bought by a German company? Greenslade spots the legalistic language in the news release:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2007/04/barclays_to_desmond_we_dont_wa.html

Ousourcing the heavy lifting? It makes every kind of sense on the web also. Amazon’s S3 will be treated as a subscribable-Heidelberger-press for the web by companies that dont need to maintain their own servers or server farms.

]]> By: Tansley - addendum http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/30/commodity-presses/#comment-349095 Tansley - addendum Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:47:48 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/30/commodity-presses/#comment-349095 For Adrian Monck: Vulnerable, yes, but not so much if you have an accompanying online venue partnered with your daily tangible. A lot of places are doing this, now. It keeps costs down, too, by leaving the maintenance costs in the hands of the 'service bureau.' As a final alternative, the paper I currently work for offers past editions in PDF file format. One could easily make the jump to offering the daily as a PDF file exclusively, should the service bureau's presses jam before street deadline. Vulnerability is in the eye of the beholder... For Adrian Monck: Vulnerable, yes, but not so much if you have an accompanying online venue partnered with your daily tangible.

A lot of places are doing this, now. It keeps costs down, too, by leaving the maintenance costs in the hands of the ’service bureau.’ As a final alternative, the paper I currently work for offers past editions in PDF file format. One could easily make the jump to offering the daily as a PDF file exclusively, should the service bureau’s presses jam before street deadline.

Vulnerability is in the eye of the beholder…

]]> By: Adrian Monck http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/30/commodity-presses/#comment-349090 Adrian Monck Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:15:52 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/30/commodity-presses/#comment-349090 Sort of smart, but also sort of vulnerable? Sort of smart, but also sort of vulnerable?

]]> By: Mark http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/30/commodity-presses/#comment-349088 Mark Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:02:21 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/04/30/commodity-presses/#comment-349088 For some reason, the San Francisco Chronicle's <a href="http://recoveringjournalist.typepad.com/recovering_journalist/2006/11/outsourcing_pri.html" rel="nofollow">decision last fall</a> to outsource its printing has gotten very little attention. As you say, smart move. For some reason, the San Francisco Chronicle’s decision last fall to outsource its printing has gotten very little attention. As you say, smart move.

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