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Some notes from the PDF Conference at the shrinking Seybold San Francisco. I didn't make it this year (for the first time in years) and the only thing I really regret not seeing was some of the web services sessions, including the one by Jake Savin. Maybe I can pick that up somewhere else.

It's been several years since I attended Seybold San Francisco and, given the economy and the somber time of year, I expected the conference to be scaled back. Still, it was a bit sad to see that the North Hall of Moscone was closed off, and the expo on the South Hall floor was pulled in from the walls, bracketed by black curtains. I remember when it was wall-to- wall in both halls and it would take a day and a half to properly explore all the booths. Had I been ambitious, I could have hit all the vendors on my "surgical strike" list in an hour and a half. So I paced myself by attending sessions, eating, walking around the block, eating, talking to vendors, eating, seeing industry friends, and eating. I did not lose weight on this trip.[more...][ Source: Claudia McCue's Radio Weblog]

If you're interested in how some big-time publishers are building their businesses around the PDF format this is worth a read.

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The geek factor on this list is decidedly higher than on SIGIA-L, but the initial few posts look interesting. Much for me to learn. Some months back Jenny Levine at TSL introduced me SIGIA-L, which seems geared primarily to GUI designers. IA-CMS seems, at first glance, to be oriented more to database structure. Both are areas that need much discussion.

New mailing list. David Heller has just started up a new list, IA-CMS, devoted to the application of information architecture to content management... [ Source: Column Two]