NY Times: Bloggers Drive Inquiry on How Altered Images Saw Print. [Adnan] Hajj, a Lebanese photographer based in the Middle East, may not be familiar to many newspaper readers. But thanks to the swift justice of the Internet, he has been charged, tried and convicted of improperly altering photographs he took for Reuters. The pictures […]
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Future of Media Summit
I’m here at the Future of Media Summit, an event exploring the future of media held simultaneously in Sydney and San Francisco. It’s linking together thought leaders via video, audio, and blogs in cross-continental panel discussions. Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail, is talking now. The book came out last Tuesday and has already […]
Final images from iSummit
I’ve been on nonstop deadlines since iSummit wrapped on Friday in Toronto, so haven’t had time for my final blog post. Here are a few photos I took. (That’s Joe Kennedy, CEO of music recommendation service Pandora.) Just used Flickr’s bulk upload tool for the first time — worked like a charm. A couple of […]
McClatchy buys Knight Ridder: thumbs up
Landed in Austin at midnight for four days at the South by Southwest Interactive and Music festivals. Just checked into the Homestead hotel across the river from the convention center, jacking in through cheap but shitty wi-fi. Blogging will be light this week. I’m very happy to see the news that my former employer, McClatchy […]
Jarah makes the front page
Susan Kitchens points out that Jarah Euston, founder-editor of Fresno Famous (with whom I did a video interview at BlogHer, see above), made the front page of Sunday’s LA Times for this story: Fresno’s Brain Drain Has Left the Town Smarting. Young people with good educations are leaving the struggling southern San Joaquin Valley in […]