Dizzyland special

Dizzying array of events in Orlando

• The NEXPO '98 preview from The Cole Papers

• The Motley Fool, Randy Bennett and Peter Levitan give their views of the state of the newspaper on-line world at the opening session of Connections in It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

• If they learned nothing else, the Co-Op and Sales Conference attendees learned how to listen, in Why can't co-op be more co-operative?

• A British expert on the Year 2000 problem told a NEXPO '98 "bonus" session that governments are paralyzed by the so-called Millenium Bug in The ugliness of the Year 2000 problem

• After making the transition to pagination, many newspapers that were expecting to achieve higher quality, better deadlines and happier advertisers are having to ask themselves, Does pagination give you nirvana?

• There are some zingers in the basic marketing concept, making it easy for customers to do business with you. Or so the Marketing Conference found in a series of round-tables that we call Let's make it hard ... and then let's bellyache

• Newspapers must provide advertisers good, consistent color reproduction and sometimes the old ways are the best, as the NEXPO workshop Old-fashioned quality makes a current topic found.

• Billed as a preview of the systems of "Tomorrowland," one NEXPO panel focused on the topics of workstation life cycles, software piracy and help desks in Systems' management is no day in the park.

• The end of using crushed trees as a delivery medium for newspapers was foretold in a combined NEXPO and Connections general session on flat-panel technologies, as described in Paper? Who needs paper?

• Previous NEXPO previews are also available: see what was hot in 1997, 1996 and 1995.