Feb
28
Expect more throughout the evening:
- Commodification and the culture of celebrity. Dennis Dunleavy has discovered a baseball card that features Jeter, Bush and Mantle. “The interesting thing about the card is that nobody’s crying foul.” Yikes.
- New Philadelphia. A sterling piece of multimedia journalism from a small-city daily. Audio, video, full text stories and more. Via Visual Editors. Aside: the downside of using things like GarageBand to build your background music is on display here. The loop used to create the background music for the opening scene is one of the same ones I used for a video I did earlier this winter about snow in Vancouver. My first reaction when I saw the New Philadelphia piece was , “Hey, they stole my song.” Which is ridiculous, of course.
- Washington Post’s Q4 profit falls 7% due to multiple charges… and continuing weakness in the Post’s newspaper and magazine division. Via Jim Romenesko.
- Update: Cobler won’t join Poynter as online managing editor. Romenesko is also reporting that Chris Cobler, who was one of those at the centre of a controversy over a newspaper stealing the competition’s stories and rebranding it as AP copy, won’t be hired by Poynter after all.
- Itty-bitty photo blog. One more blog to follow: Brian Poulter, a photojournalism instructor, plumbing the depths of small-camera shooting, including that done with cameraphones.
- Banning Pro Photographers from Basketball Game; Citizen Photographers Next? Update 1: Dan Gillmor comments on the kerfuffle in New Orleans and suggests the newspapers involved enlist the citizens to fight back.
