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Love At First Click

Posted on July 31, 2025 by Scott Smith

When I was hired at an ad agency in the spring of  1993, I had been working in desktop publishing for about five years. Back in those “good old days” computers were physically bigger than modern models, but most things … Continue reading →

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I. M. Therefore I. M. (A Story Of An Unfortunate Metadata)

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Scott Smith

About 2/3 of the way through my 2nd grade year, my family moved two hours to the north. I found myself in a different state in a century-old school building. But curiously, my new county had the same name as … Continue reading →

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The Digital Liability

Posted on February 11, 2023 by Scott Smith

During my time in the creative services and web technology industries, a point of frustration has been that a lot of potentially productive energy is squandered as practitioners argue about whether a solution is one or more of the following: … Continue reading →

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A DAM Industry: “What Should We Call This Damn Industry?”

Posted on February 18, 2020 by Scott Smith

A DAM Industry This post is about a digital asset management (DAM) industry. (Note that I wrote “a” DAM industry instead  of “the” DAM industry.) DAM (as I learned it) is the acronym/adjective that professionals in one DAM industry have … Continue reading →

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