Jan
11
Interesting reading on the ‘net:
- Reza’s One World, One Tribe. Iranian photographer and humanitarian is the cover subject in the latest issue of Digital Journalist. Dirck Halstead has an introductory essay (well worth reading), there’s a video interview and, best of all, a stunning gallery of Reza’s work. Well worth the time it takes to absorb it all.
- Great Photographers on the Internet. Just plain fun: a spoof of photo critiques featuring some iconic images and sardonic writing.
- Newspaper-TV Marriage Shows Signs of Strain. The reason, reports the Washington Post, is that newspapers “are starting to see the future of video in short form and on the Web.” Via I Want Media.
- Huffington Post Hires BBC Journalist. A new managing editor for the blogging empire. Media changes yet again. Also via I Want Media.
- What do we need to turn blogging into real citizen journalism?. An evolving discussion at The Gothamist on the question. My answer: go do journalism. It really seems to me to be that easy (and that hard). Via Unmediated.org
- Support this child’s laptop for only pennies a day. I like Mindy McAdams’ idea for supporting the $100 laptop for children in developing countries, better than I like the idea floated by Jeff Jarvis of subsidizing sales to the poorer countries by selling them at inflated to us richer folks. Mindy’s idea supports the project without taking product out of the production stream.
- Photos, Audio and the (Glorious) Struggle to Combine Them. A great piece at Poynter on Joe Weiss, inventor of Soundslides, and one of the pioneering (I think it’s fair to say that) photojournalists working online. In the wide-ranging piece, told mostly in Joe’s own words, he covers the art of photography, the importance of the still and the realities of blending image and words. (Note: If you’re one of my students, you might as well read this now; it’ll be assigned reading next week.)
