Archive for the ‘photo sharing’ Category
NYT’s Documenting the Decade project is calling for reader photos and short pieces of writing that document “five important moments from the last 10 years”: Time Magazine called it the “Decade From Hell.” New York Magazine termed it “One Wild Decade.” We want to hear from you. Help us document the decade by picking five […]
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Tags: documentary, NYT
Robert McFarlane has produced some wonderful iconic images of Australian photojournalism. His new retrospective looks like a must see. The coverage of the exhibition also presents good lessons in how to and how not to cover the visual arts on the web. Steve Meacham’s SMH piece is a classic interview/review: it leads with a close up […]
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Tags: portraits, visual art reviews
I first saw reference to the marvelous new web mag Pictory in a tweet by Wired’s Alexis Madrigal. He sums their approach up well: “it’s like a crowdsourced, more narrative” version of Boston Globe’s Big Picture. In her editor’s note Laura Brunow Miner sums up her aims this way: The Internet is brimming with eye candy, […]
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Tags: crowdsourcing, multicultural reporting, online magazines
How do you photograph noon?
The BBC photo blog Viewfinder’s ongoing reader generated photo series is a brilliant example of evocative image conversations. What I particularly like about them is the quirky subjects that they choose which allow for both literal and more imaginative interpretations. Their latest series on “Noon” has everything from an alarm clock, to the dappled light […]
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Tags: abstract photography, BBC
YouTube Direct for news
YouTube has just announced an exciting opportunity that will allow news organisations and community groups to use a new service to generate user content. It will allow other media organisations to replicate a CNN iReport style structure without setting up their own infrastructure. Media Week reports: YouTube is set to roll out a free tool that […]
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Tags: video, YouTube
Photosynth: 3D photo tours
Another tool that has great potential for journalists and crowd-sourced photo conversation projects is Microsoft’s Photosynth, which allows you to automatically assemble 3D tours and almost sculptural assemblages from photosets. Check out this virtual tour of the Oslo Town Hall where the Nobel peace prize is awarded. In this video Photosynth architect Blaise Aguera y […]
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Tags: iReport, maps, photosynth, virtual tours
Then and now: building history
Jeff Gritchen documents Long beach as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram. One section of his blog is devoted to then and now shots of his district. Recently @ljthornton on twitter mused: Wouldn’t it be great to get communities involved in building sites like this? This is not just a documentation of the architecture and […]
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Tags: history
NYT Berlin Wall Coverage
The Berlin Wall Anniversary is generating some great multimedia coverage that combines reader generated content, archival content, and new reporting including great info graphics. The New York Time’s coverage over the last week has been great. It combines many of the image conversation techniques that I have been covering in this blog. Combining innovative, professionally […]
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Tags: Berlin Wall, history, info graphic
The view from Media140
Sydney Media140 was itself a great example of image sharing conversations. The event was blogged, tweeted, livecast and now has been documented by speakers and audience through blogs, delicious and flickr. If you want to check out photos there is a Flickr pool with 49 contributing members For an interesting perspective from someone who was […]
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Tags: delicious, flickr, media140
Al Jazeera: the view from Gaza
One of the highlights of #media140 was learning from the diverse examples of the way journalists from all over the world are using Twitter and other forms of social media and user generated content. It was particularly enlightening to hear from Al Jazeera’s social media director Riyaad Minty (@riy) whose presentation shared the way his […]
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Tags: Al Jazeera, creative commons
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