The meeting will be at the Palm Springs Hilton. Registration is $400. The deadline for getting the discount hotel rate has passed, but rooms are still available. Registration forms and APSU contact information is available on the Web at http://www.APSU.com/.

-- dmc

Bit bucket ...

"The point is not to forecast the exact future of the Web but to understand the range of possible transitions such that you can be ready for them and such that you can drive your site in those directions that are promising. After all, change happens because you make it happen."
-- Jakob Nielsen, Web usability expert, in Alertbox (http://www.useit.com/)

Editors (technical and otherwise): At the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, Dave Seibert has been named deputy managing editor/technology. Previously Seibert was technology development manager for editorial, working out of the information technology department; somewhere back in his career, Seibert once was a good photographer. Moving from IT to the newsroom with Seibert is Eddie Rossie, the CCI Europe superuser. Also at the Republic, Dena Greenawalt, previously technology development manager for advertising, now substitutes the word "publishing" for "advertising" in her title and takes over responsibility for editorial, advertising and marketing, production and web development. ... At the New York State Bar Journal, Howard Angione was named editor-in-chief. Angione, who edited The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual, worked in news technology at the New York Times for 10 years before going to St. John's University Law School in the mid-'80s. ...

Mirroring the times: At the Los Angeles Times, Mark Kurtich has been named senior vice president of operations; he had been vice president of operations since 1997. Previously, Kurtich spent 26 years with the Hartford Courant in Connecticut, starting as a composing room trainee. ... At PG&E Energy Services of San Francisco, Debra Domeyer has been named chief information officer and vice president for information systems and technology. Previously Domeyer was head of information systems for Times Mirror Co. ... At The Sun of Baltimore, Charles Fertig has resigned as publishing systems manager. Fertig, the former pre-press supervisor of the News-Press & Gazette in St. Joseph, Mo., is returning to Missouri for family considerations. ...

Real bits: At A.H. Belo Corp. of Dallas, Dale Peskin has been promoted to the newly created position of vice president for interactive media in Belo's Publishing Division. Peskin previously was an assistant managing editor at the Dallas Morning News, with responsibility for developing the newspaper's interactive media projects; before that, he was a deputy managing editor at the Detroit News. ... At the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo., Garth Hospers has been named operations director. Previously, Hospers was production director at the Monterey County Herald in California and before that was the longtime production director at The Post-Bulletin in Rochester, Minn. ...

Association advancements: At the Newspaper Association of America in Vienna, Va., two new technology vice presidents have been named -- John Iobst and Tom Croteau. Known around the world as "Dr. John," Iobst is a 21-year NAA (and ANPA) veteran and a computer scientist (Ph.D. from Lehigh University) most recently in charge of technical standards and guidelines; he will continue in that role. Croteau, an acknowledged industry expert on quality in color printing, joined NAA in 1993; previously he had been an industry consultant and before that worked for nine years at USA Today as a production coordinator, quality manager and production director. He is now in charge of newspaper services and oversees the technology department's day-to-day activities. ...

Vendor vitality: At AD-Star Services Inc. of Marina del Rey, Calif., Adam Leff has been named chief operating officer and vice president. Previously Leff was a principal at AdOne Classified Network and worked in classifieds and new media at the Los Angeles Times. ... At CareerPath.com of Los Angeles, Patricia Lady has been named vice president of new business development; previously she was director of business development. Her career includes a stop at Janss Corp. of Santa Monica, Calif.; she also was supervisor of general accounting at Times Mirror VideoTex Services in Costa Mesa, Calif. ... At Heidelberg Color Publishing Solutions (née LinoColor) of Hauppauge, Scot Edwards has been named general manager for the Americas. Previously Edwards was senior vice president for marketing at Peak Technologies Inc., a global systems integrator, and before that held executive positions at Lexmark and Epson. Also at Heidelberg CPS, Yvette Bender has been named national sales manager; previously she had been national accounts manager. Before that, she had been with NewGen, C. Itoh, Sharp Electronics and Mitsubishi International. ... At Infonautics Corp. of New York, Chief Financial Officer Ronald Berg has resigned to pursue an opportunity with a start-up company. Infonautics named Freddi O'Brien, previously the director of financial reporting, as acting chief financial officer while the company searches for a replacement. ... At Monotype Systems Inc. of Rolling Meadows, Ill., Dan Scheck has been named a sales executive for the Northeast. Previously Scheck was with Ferag. ... At Media Passage of Seattle, Michael Ostrem has been named senior vice president for administration. Previously Ostrem held the position of chief operating officer for Preston Gates & Ellis, one of Seattle's leading law firms. Also at Media Passage, Sasha Press has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer. Press was formerly controller and principal accounting officer of Western Wireless Corp. ... At Purup-Eskofot of Kennesaw, Ga., Rick Mangold has been named president. Previously Mangold was the company's vice president of sales and marketing and before that spent 17 years with Agfa Corp. Mangold replaces Jeff Green, a 30-year industry veteran, who is retiring. Also at Purup-Eskofot, David Smith has been named director of service and applications support; previously Smith held a similar position with the company's United Kingdom division. ... At Quark Inc. of Denver, Kurt Dressel has been named vice president of sales and marketing. Previously Dressel was vice president of sales and marketing of Gannett Media Technologies International. and before that he held executive positions with Agfa, Atex and Du Pont. ... At Tribune Media Services of Chicago, Aylesa Singley has been named account executive for commercial sales in North America (she will be responsible for TMS TV Listings information and services for use in electronic media and other commercial applications); previously Singley worked for more than 18 years for cable TV giant Viacom in various subsidiaries, including Showtime and MTV. ...

Confabs: Visual Edge '98 -- the combination of the old Digital Photography conference and the annual Electronic Photojournalism Workshop, now run under the auspices of the National Press Photographers Association and the Poynter Institute -- will be Aug. 30-Sept. 4 in St. Petersburg, Fla. In addition to the one-week workshop that uses digital tools to cover the news and produce a paper, there will be a three-day conference, which will feature speakers such as Reid Ashe of the Tampa Tribune, Nancy Bruner of the Seattle Times, Tom Cusack of The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., John Davidson of the Dallas Morning News, Nick Didlick of the Vancouver (British Columbia) Sun, Alan English of the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester, N.Y., Rob Galbraith, free-lance photographer and author, Ken Geiger of the Dallas Morning News, Wendy Govier of Adobe Systems, Tom Kennedy of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, Katherine King of Reuters New Media, Karl Kuntz of the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, Heidi de Laubenfels of the Seattle Times, Paul Lynch of the Chicago Tribune, Nora Paul of The Poynter Institute, Dave Pierson of the St. Petersburg Times and John van Beekum of the Miami Herald. For more information, e-mail the Planners Network at planmtgs@eos.net or call (513) 728-4671. ... Seybold San Francisco '98 is Aug. 31-Sept. 4 in, of all places, San Francisco. Consecutive tracks on publishing systems and web publishing will be supplemented with a raft of one-day seminars and half-day tutorials as well as keynote addresses by Avram Miller of Intel Corp., John Seely Brown of Xerox Parc, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft and Steve Jobs of Apple Computer. For more information, send e-mail to info@sbforums or call (650) 578-6900. ... The Society of News Design's annual meeting and conference will be Sept. 10-12 in Philadelphia. Speakers will include Carolyn Flynn of New Mexico's Albuquerque Journal, Kelly Frankeny of the San Francisco Examiner, Michael Jantze of Industrial Light & Magic, Nigel Holmes of Time magazine and John Plunkett and Barbara Kuhr of Wired magazine. There are two one-day concurrent sessions on Sept. 10: "Selling by Design" (led by "design diva" Lynne Meena) and the New Media Workshop (speakers include Jakob Nielsen, former Sun Microsystems usability guru, and Elizabeth Osder, content development editor of the New York Times on the Web). For more information, send that e-mail to snd@snd.org or call (401) 276-2100. ... #

From THE COLE PAPERS, August 1998, Copyright © 1998, All Rights Reserved.