Dr Joe's Printing Industry Blog

Three consecutive years of online ad revenue growth
http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/2006-04-20-online-ad-revenues_x.htm

Bill Gates still sees TabletPCs replacing textbooks
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,125492,tk,dn042106X,00.asp

The NYT has an e-paper story (for some reason it reminds me of a press sales rep I knew who would go to his new installs and call his reluctant prospects and say "Hear that noise in the background?" and then hold the phone up to the press and then say "That's the sound of your company going out of business.")
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/24/business/media/24epaper.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1145896024-Lyr7p/RVGQBwkJn9kBVnvA

Search marketing is getting lots of press lately. Here's an Ad Age article about integrating it with offline campaigns.
http://adage.com/searchmarketing/article?article_id=108777

There's been lots of debunkable writing lately about employee shortages in the printing industry. Here's an industry that's growing: digital media... sure, in the post-Internet-bubble era, we should be suspicious when we hear that. Read and decide for yourself.
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=42555

The printing industry of Baghdad, Iraq
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-04-20-iraq-printers_x.htm
(sounds like they're making more money from politicians than those printers in India are)

Media execs told to wise up and get with the new media program (they said it nicer than that). Interesting quote:
More people are spending more time with text and images than at any time in the history of mankind.
http://www.btobonline.com/article.cms?articleId=27762