There will then be a demonstration from Consultant Garrett Queen on how to build an intranet -- he'll put one together right in front of the audience.

Two executives who have built their own web publishing systems -- James Calloway of NandO and Steve Yelvington of startribune.com -- will discuss what they wanted and needed in a web front-end, and how they built the ones they're using. Two executives from traditional suppliers -- Consultant Steve Nilan (formerly of System Integrators) and Don Oldham, president of Digital Technology International -- will talk about why suppliers have been reluctant to build such systems.

Seybold San Francisco '97 will be held Sept. 29-Oct. 3 at Moscone Center. The main conference will be Sept. 29-Oct. 1; the trade show -- filling both halls of the center -- will be Oct. 1-3.

Speakers at the main conference include John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc., Mike Homer of Netscape Communications Inc. and Bill Gates of Microsoft.

For more information on either Seybold San Francisco or the Newspaper & New Media Seminar, point your browser at http://www.seyboldseminars.com/ or call (800) 468-3767.

-- dmc

Bit bucket ...

"I predict that most newspaper companies will go bankrupt in 10 years or less unless newspapers get so hard-core about the Internet that they dominate Web classifieds by mid-1998 in the U.S. and mid-1999 in the rest of the world."
-- Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., Sun Microsystems' distinguished engineer, in a column on web advertising at http://www.useit.com/.

Real bits: At the Los Angeles Times, Judy Kallet has been named senior vice president and chief information officer; previously Kallet was vice president of production and technology at the Hartford (Conn.) Courant and, before that, had been senior vice president of information systems at Fleet Bank. ... At the API Systems Group of Jersey City, N.J., William Clark has been named a consultant; previously, Clark was information services director at Calkins Newspapers. ... At the New York Times, Steven Brier resigned his post as assistant to the editor for news technology, a job he has held for the last five years. Brier will become a senior editor at Infoworld magazine, covering IBM. Prior to joining the Times, Brier was an editor at The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, where he helped paginate the paper before most papers thought pagination was possible. ...

New media mavens: At the Seattle Times, Dave Wagner has been named manager of new media technology and operations, a new position. Previously Wagner was manager of the new media team in the paper's information services department. In his new role, Wagner leaves the IS department -- where he had a 17-year career, including jobs as publishing systems manager and pagination department manager -- to work directly for the director of new media. ... At Bayinsider.com, a new production of Cox Interactive, sportswriters William Murray and Jon Rochmis have been named content programmers. Rochmis had been with The Gate, Chronicle Publishing's web site, and before that, the Oakland Tribune. ... At Espn Magazine, John Papanek has been named vice president and editor-in-chief; he was most recently senior vice president and editor-in-chief of New Century Network, the newspaper web aggregator. ...

Vendor vibrations: At AdOne Classified Network Inc. of New York, David Lalich has been named president and chief executive officer; he replaces founder Steve Brotman, who remains with the company as chairman. Most recently, Lalich was president and CEO of AdValue Media Technologies; he also has been with the Target Marketing Group and Westinghouse Television Sales Group. ... At CText Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., John Herbst has been named vice president of sales. Formerly with Mactive, Herbst had a long and colorful career at Harris Publishing Systems Corp., which was intermingled with time in the newspaper business at the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Also at CText, Eugene Kiel, who had been vice president of sales and marketing, now concentrates on the marketing role. ... At Dataware Technologies Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., Daniel Clarke has resigned as chief financial officer; no new CFO has been named. ... At Optronics International Corp. of Chelmsford, Mass., Edward Chrusciel has been named president; previously he had been executive vice president (and before that, marketing director; before that, he was with Hell Graphic Systems). Chrusciel will continue to report to the former president, Tong Fong, who continues as CEO and chairman. Also at Optronics, Timothy Scullin has been named executive vice president; previously he had been chief financial officer of the company. ... At Polaroid Graphics Imaging of Waltham, Mass., Len Cammalleri has been named area sales manager for New York and the mid-Atlantic region; previously Cammalleri was with NedGraphics. Also at Polaroid, Kenneth Hamel has been named area sales manager for New England and eastern Canada; previously Hamel had been with DM Products and Linotype-Hell. ... At System Integrators Inc. of Sacramento, Ian Thornell has been named manager for Asia/Pacific customer support, based in Sydney. Previously, Thornell was a pre-press information technology manager with the Fairfax Group of Australia. ... At Unisys Corp. of Irving, Texas, David Erdner has resigned as vice president of publishing solutions; his duties are being assumed by Bill Stroud, manager of publishing solutions, who works out of Blue Bell, Pa. ... At Vignette Corp. of Austin, Texas, Brad Husick has been named vice president of business development; previously he was with NetGravity. Also at Vignette, Jack Lynch has been named vice president of operations; previously Lynch was controller for the Trilogy Development Group. Lastly at Vignette, Janice Ryan has been named vice president of sales; previously she was with the Watermark Division of FileNet Corp. ...

Confabs: The Association of Publishing Systems Users (formerly the Atex Newspaper Users Group) meets Sept. 20-24 in Norfolk, Va. Session topics include UNIX short course; Press2Go roundtable; Windows 95/97; World-Wide Web roundtable; Atex meets the users; DewarView system management; Enterprise System management; AppleScripting; PostScript debugging, preflighting; J-11 performance tuning; VB/ActiveX short course; network servers; Acrobat; Microsoft Word macros; SQL short course; Editorial migration case study; Advertising migration case study, and a Year 2000 roundtable. Sessions also include meeting with third-party and complementary vendors, stressing education. In addition to demonstrations, there will be case studies reporting on migrations and implementations. For more information, call (757) 446-2253. ... Intranet and Extranet, a conference and trade show organized by the Gartner Group, will be Sept. 23-25 in San Francisco. Speakers include Andrew Gore of Intel, John Sidgmore of UUNet Technologies and Edward Zander of Sun Microsystems. For more information, point your browser at http://www.expocon.com/ or call (203) 256-4700. ... The Society of Professional Journalists holds its annual convention Oct. 3-6 in Denver. Topics will include "Better Freelancing Through Technology," "Covering Technology: Crisis 2000," and "Using the Net in the Newsroom." For more information, call SPJ at (765) 653-3333. ... The Society of Newspaper Design will hold its annual workshop and exhibition Oct. 9-11 in San Diego. Titled "Evolve or Die," the subtitle is a Yogi Berra quote, "The future ain't what it used to be." Speakers include Don Asmussen, San Francisco Examiner; Jacqui Banaszynski, Seattle Times; Lucy Bartholomay, Boston Globe; Leavett Biles, Sun-Sentinel , Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Roger Black, consultant; Dan Blom, The Times, Munster, Ind.; Rob Covey, U.S. News & World Report; Steve Cowden, The Oregonian; Mike Jacobs, Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald; Galie Jean-Louis, Msnbc Interactive; J. Kyle Keener, Detroit Free Press; Lance Lekander, Anchorage Daily News; Janet Michaud, Boston Globe; Bill Ostendorf, Providence Journal; Ron Reason, Poynter Institute for Media Studies; Harris Seigel, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press; Lynn Staley, Newsweek; Yin Yin Wong, free-lance designer, and a newsletter editor and newspaper consultant whom modesty forbids naming. For more information, point your browser at http://www.uniontrib/snd97/. ... IFRA 97, the annual European newspaper technology trade show and conference, is set for Oct. 13-16 in Amsterdam. Called "Beyond the Printed Word: The World Electronic Publishing Conference," topics include newspaper intranets, a prototype intranet editorial system, an introduction to the Newspaper Industry Text Format, the Sun JavaStation and "very small aperture terminals." For more information, call {011} (49) 6151-733-6. ... #

From THE COLE PAPERS, September 1997, Copyright © 1997, All Rights Reserved.