Editor’s Blog: We Stand, Uh, Revised
Don’t count your inspections before they show up — even if it’s 90+ days and counting.
Category: Notes From A Busy Editor
The musings of Stone Business Editor Emerson Schwartzkopf, including the news-behind-the-news in the stone industry and other observations.
Getting Small(er) at Stone+tec ‘11
Technology drew the biggest crowds at the biennial central European trade show — but people didn’t necessarily flock to the largest machines.
The Almost-Naked Truth
There’s a lot that meets the eye at Stone+tec ’11 during its first day in Nuremberg, Germany.
Quartz v. Granite Showdown ’11
It’s time for those days of sodas … and pretzels … and the ratings of countertop materials from Consumer Reports. (You’ll want the beer after reading them.)
How Tweet It Is
Twitter can do more than toss around celebrity gossip or idle chat between teens. A growing number of stone-industry vendors and fabricators are warming to the short-form text messaging … and Stone Business offers a way to track them without getting pulled into the Twitterverse.
The Scoop at K/BIS 2011
With natural stone in short supply at top design show, quartz gets top billing for countertop options. Popular this year: either lots of movement, or pure, PURE white.
Diversion: One Man’s Gadgetations
Courtesy of Apple Inc.Think a nifty smartphone can do it all for you — or at least send some of your other digital devices to the recycling bin ? The New York Times thinks so. I don’t.
$16.98
Blame it on my mother, who spent her teens and early 20s in the Great Depression, and then managed a family of six on a blue-collar guy’s wages: I grew up well-schooled in the notions of value.
In other words, I can be cheap. Very cheap.
Want to Teach at StonExpo?
If you’d like to share your knowledge with other in the stone industry, StonExpo/Marmomacc Americas is a great place – and you can be part of that experience next January.
Check the Footprint, and the Foot
Spend more than a few minutes searching the ‘Net, and you’ll find plenty of people offering advice on choosing countertops from an ethical and sustainable standpoint.
And, after reading them, I’d be glad to give my own counsel: Go out and learn something about countertops and material origins. Please.