A jury on Thursday acquitted three men charged in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, winning praise from Politkovskaya’s family for not accepting what they called a poorly investigated case.
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In Brian Kosoff last post he talks about the value of advertising photographers’ time and images dropping during the last decade. For a while he stuck it out with cost saving measures like those outlined below. But when an opportunity arose to move to a new model — fine art photography — Brian was smart enough to see its potential and happy to make the switch.
in Photography
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Evan Roth’s new self published book project called, /AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE: Selected works by Evan Roth 2003-2008/ (made entirely in Linux using open source software and fonts).
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“This restructuring is focused solely on our debt, not our operations,” chief executive officer Brian P. Tierney said in a statement. “Our operations are sound and profitable.”
in Journalism
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In the few day’s since the passing of Larry H. Miller, owner of the Utah Jazz, I have been very busy working in my role as a photo editor and photographer trying to do our best to tell this important story for our readers.
I had a few minutes last night to reflect on his personal impact on my life.
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Yeah, we use it for a poor-man’s RSS feed, but The Click’s Twitter situation is fixed. I’m wondering how this was broken for two months before I noticed. Oh yeah, beta plugin software. That’s what it was…
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There are a number of factors to be considered when buying a new camera. Just a few include – image quality, resolution (pixel count) and price. In addition there is the matter of lens availability, ergonomics, features and much, much more.
in Equipment
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I am typing this on a 9-inch, 3G-equipped, almost-pocketable computer, running the best consumer OS money can currently buy. It costs around $400. Do you want one too? Here’s how to get yours.
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Helvetica Bold Oblique was the big winner at Tuesday’s 73rd Annual Fonty Awards, taking home 11 statues, including those for Best Sans Serif and the highly coveted 2001 Best Font prize.
in Art & Design
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Over on Boing Boing Offworld, our Brandon’s found Jumpman, a hypnotically nostalgic and mesmerizingly fun retro-game
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I agree with efforts to lift the ban on photographs of returning fallen servicemen and women. Nothing says more of the sacrifice they and their families have made than that.
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For more than 40 years Tom Arndt has trained his Leica MP on his fellow Minnesotans at work and play, especially at the State Fair, in small-town diners, parades and high school gyms. He loves fireworks and the fair’s midway, threshing crews, cabbies, commuters, construction workers, cars with tailfins and kids on bikes.
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UPDATE: Apparently not. See the first comment from Alex at Last.FM
word is going around that the RIAA asked social music service Last.fm for data about its user’s listening habits to find people with unreleased tracks on their computers. And Last.fm, which is owned by CBS, actually handed the data over to the RIAA
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We support an aggressive press and TMZ is probably within its First Ammendment rights. But we can’t think of any justification for publishing this photo.
in Ethics
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Adrian Searle dissects this year’s contenders for the biggest photography prize in the world
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CLICK NOTE: Not that anyone is asking me to, but remind me never to agree to be a judge at POYi.
