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"The ability by any publisher of an operating system to maintain the full, integrated product consistently is valuable. Otherwise, you get into this fragmentation phenomenon, like there is with UNIX, where you would have different flavors of Windows. And we don't want to get into that position."
-- Bill Neukom, Microsoft Corp., quoted in the San Jose Mercury News.

So APSU me: At the Association of Publishing Systems Users, a new slate of officers has been elected for 1997-98. Jim Perine of the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch is the new president; Gary Ward of The State, Columbia, S.C., is vice president for programs; Cindy Smith of the Pennysaver Corp., Farmingdale, N.Y., is the other vice president; Paul Williams of the Patriot Ledger, Quincy, Mass., is treasurer, and David Hard of Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. is secretary. Directors include Rebecca Pratt, Newsweek, New York (membership); Randy Jessee, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.; Bob Edmonston, Boston Globe; Kristie Alberty, Star Tribune, Minneapolis; Mark Siple, Columbus Dispatch; James Beatty, Horvitz Newspapers, Bellevue, Wash., and Mary Cardinal, Star Tribune. The group's wire editor is Paul Schulman, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. ...

New media mavens: At Media General of Richmond, Va., Thomas Silvestri has been named director of news synergy and news bank editor; previously he was deputy managing editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. In his new job, Silvestri will be responsible for developing shared content among the publishing division properties and will serve as a "news advocate" at the division level, concentrating on quality in content and synergy between all properties. ... At Digital Ink Co. of Arlington, Va., the Washington Post Co.'s digital media and electronic information services subsidiary, Eric Koefoot has been named chief financial officer and controller; previously Koefoot, who started his career at Ford Motor Co., was with PrimeSource Consulting Group where he was a founding partner and vice president of finance. ...

Vendor vestments: At Advanced Technical Solutions Inc. of Wilmington, Mass., C. Bryan Kelley III has joined the ATS sales organization. Kelley, who comes from a family of newspapermen (his grandfather was in newspapers; his father, Cecil Kelley Jr., is an executive with Gannett Co. Inc.), has a long career as a newspaper supplier, with stints at Dewar, Digital Technology and System Integrators, where he was sales director for the ill-fated TeleCo Division. ... At Cybergraphic Systems Ltd. Pty. of Melbourne, Australia, Roger Grammer has been named Asian business development manager, responsible for building an enhanced presence in Southeast Asia. Previously, Grammer (a U.S. citizen) was a consultant with News International Newspapers in London and before that had been one of the first employees of Atex Australasia. ... At Inso Corp. of Boston, Paul Savage has been named vice president, worldwide sales and service. Previously, Savage was vice president of sales and service with Inso's Electronic Publishing Solutions group. Prior to joining Inso in October, 1996, Savage was with Digital Equipment Corp. for more than 17 years. ... At Unisys Corp. of Blue Bell, Pa., Bill Stults has been named project manager. Stults, the longtime technology manager at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, will continue to live in the Pacific Northwest. ...

Confabs: Graphics Canada '97, a trade show and conference, will be Nov. 13-16 in Toronto; for details, call (416) 445-6641. ... Millennium Survival, a Year 2000 conference sponsored by the Software Productivity Group, is Nov. 17-19 in Boston. For more information, call (508) 652-1100 or e-mail general@spgnet.com. ... The biggest computer industry trade show, Comdex Fall, is Nov. 17-21 in Las Vegas. For the scoop, call (617) 449-6600. ... If you worry about metrology of displays, viewing conditions, RGB color space or color appearance models, then the International Commission on Illumination (its initials are CIE in French) Color Expert Symposium is for you. It will be Nov. 20-21 in Scottsdale, Ariz. For more information, call (43) {01} 714 31 87 0 or e-mail ciecb@ping.at. ...

Mark your calendars: The Poynter Institute's "Informational Graphics" seminar, March 15-20, 1998, will feature guest instructors Nigel Holmes and George Rorick. "The Poynter Conference: Designing With Type" is May 3-5, and will feature Poynter's Ron Reason and Mario Garcia, as well as Roger Black, type and nameplate designer Jim Parkinson, Pamela Dunlap-Shohl of the Anchorage Daily News and others. For deadlines and more info, call Poynter at (813) 821-9400 ext. 300. ... The 1997 Newspaper Readership Conference -- sponsored by the World Association of Newspapers (neé Fiej) -- will be Nov. 27-28 in Paris. This year's topic: "Sports: A winner for newspapers." Session topics include "Driving sales with sports coverage" (speakers include Noel Couedel of Le Parisien and Antonio Franco of El Periodico de Datalunya of Spain); "Gaining readers through design, new revenues from sports advertising" (presenters are Jim Currow of the Newspaper Association of America and Marta Botero de Levya of the Society of News Design); "Thriving in a multiple media environment" (speakers include Walter Mattos of Lance of Brazil and Ian Katz of The Guardian of London), and "Performing in a highly competitive market" (presentations by Hugo Drayton of the Daily Telegraph of London and Graham Mead of Trinity International Holdings of the United Kingdom). For more information, call (33) {1} 47 42 85 00 or send e-mail to fiej.nemo@nemo.geis.com. ...

Errors & Omissions: In last issue's story on the Electronic Photojournalism Workshop, we listed the members of the board that would supervise the new Visual Edge conferences that will replace EPW and the Digital conferences; unfortunately, we had the makeup of that board incorrect. According to the Visual Edge draft charter, which has not yet been signed, there will be a five-person board, consisting of the National Press Photographers Association's executive director (Ellen LoCurto), a Digital representative (Steve Rice of the Star Tribune of Minneapolis), an EPW representative (Karl Kuntz of the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio), a Poynter Institute representative (Kenny Irby) and the NPPA president (Dave Lutman, a free-lance photographer from Louisville, Ky.). We regret the error. ... Last issue we neglected to credit artist Joe Shoulak for his fine piece of cover art; we sincerely regret the oversight. ... #

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