Comments on: Wax On, Wax Off http://www.newstechzilla.com/2008/12/wax-on-wax-off/ Not Just Tech News...Tech FOR News Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:30:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Linzi http://www.newstechzilla.com/2008/12/wax-on-wax-off/comment-page-1/#comment-838 Linzi Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:17:03 +0000 http://newstechzilla.com/?p=37#comment-838 A cheeky request but is there a chance your company would consider selling the dusty waxer ? Trying to set up a tiny publishing company and desperately need it to make old fashioned mock-ups. Pretty please ! A cheeky request but is there a chance your company would consider selling the dusty waxer ? Trying to set up a tiny publishing company and desperately need it to make old fashioned mock-ups. Pretty please !

]]> By: Dan http://www.newstechzilla.com/2008/12/wax-on-wax-off/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Dan Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:24:19 +0000 http://newstechzilla.com/?p=37#comment-10 My second newspaper job (the first one with a regular paycheck) was pasteup clerk to The Chapel Hill Newspaper. I loved the waxing and the exacto knives and the way that a pasteup monkey with a good eye could quickly become a valued member of a team. But when the typesetting machine failed, and the newspaper had no way to get copy printed for me to wax and they were about to cancel the weekend paper, I came up with a way to route all the text through a 600-baud modem to the one Apple we had in the art department (a closet), where I used Aldus Pagemaker to output every single story and headline and cutline, etc. I've always liked both sides of the digital/analog coin, and the secret is to not be scared of the new stuff. Why NOT be curious about it? Isn't journalism supposed to be curiosity in action? Isn't humanity the toolmaking species? Isn't technology just evolution by non-biological means? So why WOULDN'T a journalist want to embrace all this wild wonderful STUFF? Consequently: LOVE YOUR NEW SITE. My second newspaper job (the first one with a regular paycheck) was pasteup clerk to The Chapel Hill Newspaper. I loved the waxing and the exacto knives and the way that a pasteup monkey with a good eye could quickly become a valued member of a team.

But when the typesetting machine failed, and the newspaper had no way to get copy printed for me to wax and they were about to cancel the weekend paper, I came up with a way to route all the text through a 600-baud modem to the one Apple we had in the art department (a closet), where I used Aldus Pagemaker to output every single story and headline and cutline, etc.

I’ve always liked both sides of the digital/analog coin, and the secret is to not be scared of the new stuff. Why NOT be curious about it? Isn’t journalism supposed to be curiosity in action? Isn’t humanity the toolmaking species? Isn’t technology just evolution by non-biological means? So why WOULDN’T a journalist want to embrace all this wild wonderful STUFF?

Consequently: LOVE YOUR NEW SITE.

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