My mood is 777 points lower this morning. Derivatives, sub-prime loans, securities, bonds. How do you photograph a crisis still playing out on a balance sheet? Traders with heads in hands, foreclosure signs, politicians at lecterns. What I’m not seeing is any evidence of the human condition on Main Street in national media coverage. ——————- [...]

Is debate coverage getting better with each presidential election? 3,000 photographers, videographers and journalists at Ole Miss are gearing up for the first McCain/Obama exchange. I spent my lunch hour today hopping around the past. Podiums have been the prop of choice since Kennedy and Nixon sparred in 1960. One diva demand then – both [...]

English is read left to right. The upper left corner of a site is often considered the start point and valuable real estate. But how to people continue to scan the page? Gender matters – especially when you move past click-thrus and look at conversion triggers. According to an Enquiro Research white paper called ‘Website [...]

Photojournalists arrested at this year’s Republic National Convention. Rioting in the streets. Tear gas. A first? Nope. Check out Ron Pownall’s photos from the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention Riots at the Panopticon Gallery in Boston (www.panopt.com).

Fotonauts is in beta testing for a new photo search engine. Idea is to use tagging to pull images from Flickr and other services into one searchable database. Read this blog post by Dan Farber on Webware: Fotonauts crafts Wikipedia for photos | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone At the TechCrunch50, fotonauts rolled [...]

Canadian Yousuf Karsh was a busy and fabulous photographer. His most famous portrait is of a rather grumpy Winston Churchill taken moments after Karsh snatched the prime minister’s cigar from his mouth. Mr. Churchill didn’t take too kindly to the artistic invasion. Some claim that image is the most reproduced photographic portrait in history. Relive [...]

Two times, two places, two mediums: catch Paula Lerner’s “Afghan Stories” exhibit in the city of your choice. AFGHAN STORIES: Fall 2008 Exhibitions and Events Photos and Multimedia by Paula Lerner Many news stories out of Afghanistan cover the ongoing insurgency and hardships of war, but few tell of how people are rebuilding in war’s [...]

Fancy business term doesn’t cushion the blow. A.H. Belo Corp., plans to layoff employees at three papers following the voluntary buyout phase of the company’s restructuring plan. No word on the number of layoffs expected at the Providence Journal. According to an article by ProJo staffer Michael McKinney, around 500 employees from ProJo, Dallas Morning [...]

Globe photographer Bill Brett found 372 Boston moments in 372 straight days. If you are counting consecutive week days – given an average 8 hour day that is 2972 hours of looking for the best image of the day. Factor in Boston winters and 2000 of those hours could have been spent knee-deep in snow [...]