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    Link: Official Google Blog: Read news fast with Google Fast Flip:

    Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers. As the name suggests, flipping through content is very fast, so you can quickly look through a lot of pages until you find something interesting. At the same time, we provide aggregation and search over many top newspapers and magazines, and the ability to share content with your friends and community. Fast Flip also personalizes the experience for you, by taking cues from selections you make to show you more content from sources, topics and journalists that you seem to like. In short, you get fast browsing, natural magazine-style navigation, recommendations from friends and other members of the community and a selection of content that is serendipitous and personalized.

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  • Link: Adobe Releases Final Camera Raw 5.5 and Lightroom 2.5 | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection:

    Adobe today released final versions of Photoshop Camera Raw 5.5, Photoshop Lightroom 2.5 and DNG Converter 5.5, available immediately for download

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    Link: jazmine’s goodbye | Redlights and Redeyes:

    I was sent to cover the final memorial and funeral for Jazmine Thompson – the Bayshore High School cheerleader who was shot and killed last Friday night while riding with friends in a car after her school’s football game.  A lot has happened since then.  The suspect, 18 year-old Daniel Williams, turned himself in to authorities and is charged with second degree murder.  There have been numerous fund-raisers, memorials, and community events.  Media outlets began to latch on.  Dick Vitale, legendary ESPN broadcaster and local resident has stepped up and cover the funeral expenses.

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  • Link: Military’s Killing of 2 Journalists in Iraq Detailed in New Book – washingtonpost.com:

    The Reuters photographer and driver were carrying cameras and walking with a group of Iraqi men, some of whom appeared to be armed, when a U.S. helicopter crew mistook them for insurgents, according to an account by David Finkel in the book “The Good Soldiers,” published Tuesday.

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  • CLICK NOTE: The author, Jim McNay, says that this is only part one of a series. I guess this is the part where he only talked to photographers who don’t blog, or even read blogs, or even like blogs. Damn they are conceited! I love books, too, but for me it’s about reading and viewing quality material wherever I can find it. The platform is irrelevant.


    Link: One of Today’s Great Questions: Why Blog?:

    Teresa Hurteau Douglass, formerly with the Visalia Times-Delta, expressed the sentiments of many who find the whole blogging thing just a bit dreary. She says, “I do not blog and I do not read blogs. When the Visalia Times-Delta editors started blogging I was bored to tears with the few blogs I read. I prefer good journalism to blogging.”

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    Link: Q&A: JeongMee Yoon, Seoul:

    JeongMee Yoon is a photographer living and working in Seoul, South Korea. In 2006, she received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. This work is from her series, The Pink & Blue Project, which has been widely exhibited.

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  • Link: War Crimes Court Convicts Journalist of Contempt – washingtonpost.com:

    The case against Florence Hartmann — who covered the Bosnian war as a reporter in the 1990s, became spokeswoman for the tribunal prosecutor from 2000 to 2006, then returned to writing — has been denounced as a waste of the court’s time and money and a deviation from its mission of prosecuting those accused of atrocities during the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia.

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    Link: Showcase: TriBeCa Chiaroscuro – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:

    Donna Ferrato’s raw, energetic black-and-white images capture shadowy figures walking alone on wet pavement. There are compelling scenes of construction workers seen through steam and dust hammering Belgian block pavement, and of celebrities and everyday New Yorkers strolling down side streets as if they were fashion catwalks.

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  • Link: A Conversation with Vanessa Winship – Conscientious:

    Vanessa Winship’s work came to my attention when a friend of mine showed me the copy of Sweet Nothings, a most exquisite little book of portraiture of school children in Eastern Anatolia (Turkey). A little later, Vanessa sent me a copy of the book, and we started talking about her work, so I ended up asking her for an interview.

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    CLICK NOTE: Click on FEATURE GALLERY to see the photos. It’s VERY EASY to miss.
    Link: 44 Days: A Revolution Revisited – The Digital Journalist:

    In the case of these photographs, they have lived happily, cared for in the file cabinets at Contact Press Images in New York for the past three decades. Now and then a picture would be licensed but for the most part, as a body of work it remained relatively untouched. Then, about two years ago, I returned from a trip to find that a small conference room at the agency had been papered with 5″x7″ Xerox copies of dozens of photographs from the Revolution. They had been taped up in the timeline sequence they were shot in, and for the first time, I realized that I was looking at the whole story all at once. The progression of the story was laid out, and it made total sense. Jacques Menashe, a reporter with Contact, and Robert Pledge, the director, had, in my absence, put together this visual narrative in a way that really told the story. We worked from this point forward, sharpening details about what happened where, and on which day, cross referencing with both contemporary news accounts and books written about the Revolution. In the end, when we presented the package to the book division at National Geographic a year ago, it was pretty much ready to go. And once they signed on, there were dozens of little detail items that we wanted to make sure were right. Between those accounts, my caption envelopes, and my sometimes fading memory, we managed to structure the book layout in a form which tries to tell the story in the timeline that unfolded. It is a book of history. Yes, photography is memory, and whatever else is written about the Iranian Revolution, and the ways in which it became the precursor for much of what has happened in the Middle East in the last three decades, this book will remain to tell that story.

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  • Link: E-Bits – The Lens Cap Comes Off: AP Defends Photo Release – The Digital Journalist:

    In her journal, Ms. Jacobson expresses consideration, compassion and concern for the families of soldiers shown in conflict. Her mission as she states it: “Then, there’s the journalism side of things, which is what I am and why I am here … it is necessary for people to see the good, the bad, and the ugly in order to reflect upon ourselves as human beings.” And reflecting we are. The publication of Jacobson’s image of Cpl. Bernard has stimulated one of the most active discussions in recent memory.

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  • Link: French photographer Willy Ronis dies at age 99 – lens culture photography weblog:

    French photographer Willy Ronis died today in Paris, apparently lively and active until the end. His work captured the romance of French culture of the mid-20th century with classic, poetic beauty.

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  • Link: Too Close for Comfort? : CJR:

    The dramatic change in Ricks’s writing about the military in Iraq reflects a broader shift that has taken place in the coverage of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The doctrine of counterinsurgency has received almost uniformly positive press coverage, at times making it appear to be the only possible avenue for the U.S. military, and in the process that coverage has cast it in the most positive light.

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  • Link: At Toronto Film Festival, Cautions on Documentaries – NYTimes.com:

    The report found that documentarians, while they generally aspire to act honorably, often operate under ad hoc ethical codes. The craft tends to see itself as being bound less by the need to be accurate and fair than by a desire for social justice, to level the playing field between those who are perceived to be powerful and those who are not.

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  • Link: Journal entries of AP photographer embedded with US Marines in Afghanistan – The Digital Journalist:

    To publish or not is the question. The image is not the most technically sound, but his face is visible as are his wounds. Many factors come into play. There’s the form we signed agreeing to how and what we would cover while embedded. It says we can photograph casualties from a respectable distance and in such a way that the person is not identifiable. Then you think about the relatives and friends of Bernard. Would you, as a parent, want that image posted for all the world to see? Or even would you want to see how your son died? You’d probably want to remember him another way. Although, it was interesting to watch the Marines from his squad flip through the images from that day on my computer (they asked to see them). They did stop when they came to that moment. But none of them complained or grew angry about it. They understood that it was what it was. They understand, despite that he was their friend, it was the reality of things.

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  • Link: Ethics: Telling the Whole Story – The Digital Journalist:

    The controversy has always involved the conflicting interests of two cultural titans, a military charged with protecting the nation and a free press that has the task of informing the citizenry.

    The military has historically favored less war-related information for public consumption while the journalists have always favored more.

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    viaWooster Collective: Invader – The Interview With Friendswelove.com

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  • Link: Art Capital Dropping Lawsuit Against Annie Leibovitz:

    A statement issued Friday by both parties said Leibovitz has bought back control of her physical property—presumably including her two houses—and copyrights. Previously, Art Capital had said it had the right to sell Leibovitz’s homes and photo archive under the terms of the loan.

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    Link: Olympus EP-1 Review – PDN:

    In fact, that first day the EP-1 came in, I couldn’t take my eyes off it. This is saying a lot considering that my office is usually filled with photo and consumer electronics gear of all shapes and sizes. While I’m admittedly a bit jaded when it comes to products, the EP-1 kept cooing at me from its place atop the printer: “Take me out, Dan. Take me out and shoot with me. Shoot with me forever….”

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  • Link: PDNPulse: Deadline Approaching E&P News Photos of the Year Contest

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