Tuesday squibs

Getting to things late again today:

• Cameras Permitted–Maybe. An instructive story from David Pogue, with yet another reason why a non-pro, 10x or 12x zoom point-and-shoot is a good thing to have on hand.
• Headwinds for online advertising. Consumers are, apparently, finding some online advertising intrusive and annoying, which could slow the rapid growth of online ads.
• Comparison of upcoming digital audio recorders. Brad Linder compares specs for some impressive sounding audio recorders that are on the horizon. The proof will be in the test recordings, of course.
• Donnie Does Photoshop — Think Saturday Night Live + Photo Editing. If you haven’t seen You Suck at Photoshop, you’re missing a little bit of learning and a whole lot of entertainment.
• Does the News Matter to Anyone Anymore? David Simon asks the question, “What I don’t understand is this: Isn’t the news itself still valuable to anyone? In any format, through any medium–isn’t an understanding of the events of the day still a salable commodity?” No answers in the comments to what is one of the central questions of the new media age.
• Real Journalism. Armed Liberal follows up on his criticism of a recent NYT article on “killer vets” with an example of some local reporting that he calls real journalism. His case is persuasive.
• Photojournalist as humanitarian: Bringing the message home. Dennis Dunleavy: “Advocacy photojournalism has a strong tradition in our culture and there is no reason why it should go away, even if every thing seems to be about making money and consumption. The main reason why so many people go into photojournalism is that they can tell stories that make other people care.”
• As O’Shea attacks Tribune, there are lessons all US journalists have to learn. The lesson, Roy Greenslade says, is that grandstanding journalists are abetting a journalism culture that refuses to acknowledge things have changed.
• Journalism’s frayed relationship. a vey good op-ed from the Boston Globe about the perils to society in the face of the “market failure” of the private sector to properly o journalism.