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Quality in Custom Media

Assuring quality in process and product.

That’s a Fact

August 11, 2010 Quality
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“Did you hear what some flight attendant in New York did?” From offices to college campuses to airports, it seems everyone was talking this week about Steven Slater—the JetBlue flight attendant who had just about enough with one rude passenger. After getting hit on the head with a piece of luggage and cursed at, he [...]

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The Quality Hustle

July 1, 2010 Quality
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Fast, cheap, good: pick two. You may have heard the adage, and it makes lots of sense applied to the world of media. We’ve already examined the exigencies of fast and relished the comforting ripples good can generate… but can cheap ever fit in with a quality ethos?

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The Couch Whisperers

May 25, 2010 Quality
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Remember the cozy, protected feeling that came with barricading your little-kid self inside a homemade fort? So do the architects at Build LLC, a firm in Seattle, Wash., who analyzed a selection of couch-based battlements. Besides catapulting me back to a long-ago basement rec room where I “fortified” a couple of low-slung, eggshell-hued sofas with [...]

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Quality Is Love

April 15, 2010 Quality
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Somewhere in the world, right now, there’s a robot folding hankies. Seriously. Take a look at it. OK, they’re not really hankies; rather, “rectangular pieces of cloth.” But, just focus for a moment on the the geek-love expressed by the title of the accompanying post (“Adorable Laundry-Folding Robot Gives Your Towels Fastidious Attention”). The robot [...]

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Is There a Future for Quality in Media?

April 13, 2010 Quality
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Does this very question set me up as a nostalgia-sodden, elitist Luddite? Of course I don’t think so: I believe that there can be no high art without low. I even realize that my use of “high” and “low” smacks of my own convenient and possibly specious value judgments. But it seems indisputable that the [...]

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