Reporter's notebook: Seybold speakers tout human touch

SAN FRANCISCO -- Seybold San Francisco 2000 kicked off Monday with a special "visions of the future" keynote delivered by Dick Brass, vice president of technology development at Microsoft Corp.; Norm Meyrowitz, president of Macromedia Ventures; and Jonathan Seelig, vice president and co-founder of Akamai Technologies Inc.

These are all technology companies, to be sure. However, the respective keynotes dwelt less on new technological developments but on how professional publishers get the job done. Full story. -- Andreas Pfeiffer, the Pfeiffer Report on Emerging Trends and Technologies, special to ZDNet