Author: Trent

  • Livebooks Ramps Up Search Engine Optimization with New Web Suite

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    liveBooks, Inc. (www.livebooks.com), a leading provider of customized portfolio websites and marketing software for professional photographers, today announced the Spring 2008 release of liveBooks Professional. Research has shown that more than 80 percent of Internet users first find websites through organic search. To address this need, this latest release adds new features to enhance the search marketing functionality integrated into every visually rich, custom Flash website built by liveBooks.

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  • Olympic Photo "Dream Team" – PDNPulse

    Newsweek has announced that photographers Vincent Laforet, Donald Miralle and Mike Powell will be on exclusive assignment for the magazine to cover the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

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  • Fallout From a Literary Fraud – Love and Consequences – Margaret Seltzer – Margaret B. Jones – New York Times

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    Geoffrey Kloske, publisher of Riverhead Books, the unit of Penguin Group USA that released the book, by Margaret Seltzer, under a pseudonym, Margaret B. Jones, said on Tuesday that there was nothing else that he or Sarah McGrath, the book’s editor, could have done to prevent the author from lying.

    “In hindsight we can second-guess all day things we could have looked for or found,” Mr. Kloske said. “The fact is that the author went to extraordinary lengths: she provided people who acted as her foster siblings. There was a professor who vouched for her work, and a writer who had written about her that seemed to corroborate her story.” He added that Ms. Seltzer had signed a contract in which she had legally promised to tell the truth. “The one thing we wish,” Mr. Kloske said, “is that the author had told us the truth.”

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  • Dungeons & Dragons Creator Gary Gygax Passes Away; Interview on Gadgets – Boing Boing

    According to a post on Troll Lord Games, the company that had published his most recent work, Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons & Dragons, has passed away

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  • Anti-terror police defend campaign targeting suspicious behaviour of people with cameras news – Amateur Photographer UK

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    Police deny that their latest anti-terror campaign will encourage harassment of photographers taking pictures in public places.

    Last week police chiefs issued fresh warnings over the potential dangers posed by people carrying cameras for surveillance purposes.

    The news comes amid growing reports of clashes between police officers and photographers taking pictures in public places in the UK.

    Check it out here. Via Conscientious.

  • National Geographic Renews Legal War Over Digital Archive – emedia and Technology @ FolioMag.com

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    “It’s the archive that’s at stake,” Angelo Grima, senior vice president and deputy general counsel for the National Geographic Society, said during a panel on digital rights at the Magazine Publishers of America’s Magazines 24/7 conference at the Hearst Tower Thursday. “We’ll go to the Supreme Court if we have to, because our archive is that important to us.”

    The litigation, now entering its 11th year, has seen more twists than a John Grisham novel. The 11th Circuit first ruled in 2001 in favor of Jerry Greenberg, a freelance photographer whose work had appeared in National Geographic (in 1962, 1968 and 1971) and then on CD. Subsequent cases in the 2nd Circuit ruled in favor of National Geographic. In 2004, a Florida judge awarded Greenburg $400,000 in damages; National Geographic appealed. Last year, a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit overruled the 2001 decision in favor of National Geographic, but Greenburg asked for—and was granted—a full court review.

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  • NPPA: Best of Photojournalism 2008: Video News Photography: Winners

    Join Al Tompkins to learn what impressed the judges, what ethical issues arose in this year’s entries, and how the backpack journalist trend is affecting photojournalism.

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  • First New York Photo Festival Aims To Draw 100,000 Visitors

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    “I think it goes without saying that a major international photo festival in New York is long overdue,” said Frank Evers, managing director of the VII Photo Agency and one of the founders of the New York Photo Festival. Evers and other show organizers spoke at the Dumbo headquarters of powerHouse books; publisher Daniel Power is the other founder of the festival. Two Trees Management, which owns most of the real estate in Dumbo, is another supporter. (PDN is one of the festival’s media partners.)

    Four main curators will each oversee a pavilion: British photographer Martin Parr; Kathy Ryan, picture editor of The New York Times Magazine; Lesley A. Martin, book publisher at the Aperture Foundation; and Tim Barber, former photo editor for Vice magazine and editor of tinyvices.com.

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  • Eugene Richards Leaves VII Photo – PDNPulse

    Documentary photographer Eugene Richards – who famously quit Magnum twice – has now left the VII Photo Agency. Speaking to PDN today, he said he left about a week ago and the choice was “personal preference,” motivated by the agency “going in a different direction.” He said he wishes VII well. “Sometimes you don’t fit,” he added. Richards said he has no plans to join another agency. Richards was voted into VII in 2006.

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  • Rob Galbraith DPI: Apple releases Aperture 2.0.1

    Apple has released Aperture 2.0.1 for Mac, a maintenance update to the latest version of its pro photo management and RAW conversion application

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  • Author Admits Acclaimed Memoir Is Fantasy – New York Times

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    In “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods.
    Margaret B. Jones is a pseudonym for Margaret Seltzer, who is all white and grew up in the well-to-do Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley, with her biological family. She graduated from the Campbell Hall School, a private Episcopal day school in the North Hollywood neighborhood. She has never lived with a foster family, nor did she run drugs for any gang members. Nor did she graduate from the University of Oregon, as she had claimed.

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  • scott campbell: Great Showdowns.

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    hey, diary and others.
    i did these nine paintings for the Crazy 4 Cult show at Gallery 1988 in LA tomorrow night. They depict nine great movie showdowns. you might remember these great moments in movie history.

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  • Right Some Good: Nathan Ota

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    I really, really like Nathan Ota’s paintings. His work contains characters such as eyeless birds, cyclops robots, and tree stump men

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  • Army Cooks: recipes for survival and victory! – lens culture photography weblog

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    Photographer Martin Kollar and filmmaker Peter Kerekes have been documenting Army Cooks from all over Eastern Europe and beyond, as part of an ongoing project that started in 1991. In his brilliant introduction to the project, Kerekes begins: “They are ordinary men in aprons worn over their uniforms, whose task is to feed the army. They take care of the operation of a giant stomach, a big hungry child with its moods – the Army.”

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  • Credential Dispute Sparks Editors Meeting With MLB

    A group of top news and sports editors is planning to meet with Major League Baseball this week to discuss a string of new restrictions on media credentials that editors contend are an unfair limitation on Web-related reporting.

    The new restrictions, which take effect later this month when the 2008 season begins, include: a 72-hour limit on posting photos after games; a seven-photo limit on the number of photos posted from a game while it is in progress; a 120-second limit on video length from game-related events; and a ban on live or recorded audio and video from game-related events posted 45 minutes before the start of a game through the end.

    “I am really unclear about what they are trying to accomplish with that one,” John Cherwa, Tribune Company sports coordinator and sports special projects editor at the Orlando Sentinel, said about the 45-minute rule.

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  • Easing the Pain of Collecting – New York Times

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    Gabriele Stabile for The New York Times

    JEN BEKMAN’S apartment is hardly what you would expect from a woman who has made herself a force in the art world in the last five years, building a photography and fine arts Web site that draws international collectors and earning an innovator-of-the-year title from American Photo magazine.
    Then again, her narrow studio in the East Village vividly reflects the many unusual twists in her life — a testament to a talent for reinvention.

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  • Punknews.org | Flogging Molly: "Float"

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    Los Angeles, California’s Flogging Molly have posted a full stream of their new album Float which is due out March 4, 2008 via Side One Dummy. It is the follow-up to Whiskey on a Sunday [CD/DVD] which was released in 2006.

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  • News – Newspaper is 7-year-old's labor of love – sacbee.com

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    As newspapers struggle with changing times, one young Davis entrepreneur has cast his lot with the printed word.

    Finnegan O’Toole Boire founded his own paper in September. He writes, takes photos, sells ads and handles printing and circulation.

    “I’m the editor-in-chief,” he said. “I’m also the delivery boy. I do pretty much everything all by myself.”

    Finn is 7 years old. His paper is called The Weekly Block and covers his own small part of the world in central Davis.

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  • Broken bones, wrecked lenses and other fun adventures – In Africa with the White House press corps – Reuters Photographers

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    One thing that never changes on a White House trip, no matter where in the world we are travelling, are the extremely long days on the go. You are running off planes and into the back of deafening military helicopters which sometimes spew hot oil all over your clothes, and then jump into the motorcade. Repeat three more times in one day and you start to get the picture. Actually I love all of it. It’s definitely an adrenalin rush and sometimes it’s adrenalin alone that will get you through a tough day. We normally assemble at 6-7am and sometimes finish at midnight if there is a state dinner or such. On one of the days, we awake in Tanzania, fly to Rwanda for a full day’s schedule, then get back on the plane and fly six hours to Ghana. On the last day, we leave Ghana, cover Bush’s historic trip to Liberia, then overnight on Air Force One back to Washington. The long days working in unfamiliar environments, hoping you don’t have to break out the satellite phone to transmit your pictures (we never did), and constant time zone changes eventually take their toll on everyone and thankfully most trips don’t last more than a week. But the longer it goes, the more “silly” things start happening to people, sometimes with painful consequences.

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  • TrekEarth | Strangers in a train Photo

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    I’m not a huge gear head but the nice folks at Nikon Professional Services sent me a new toy (Nikon D3) to use for a while. So far, I think it’s the best camera I’ve ever shot with…yes…even better than the Leica M6…well..maybe.

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