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June 23, 2008 on blogging tagged alan taylor, big picture, blog-o-the-week, boston globe, photojournalism, photos

Blog o’ the Week: The Big Picture

Alan Taylor at the Boston Globe has started a fantastic new blog called The Big Picture. The premise is fairly simple: telling stories with large, engaging photos. Often, I find the web marginalises photojournalism and here the photos are given centre stage, much like Life magazine did a generation ago.

March 19, 2008 on Uncategorized tagged compfight, copyright, creative commons, flickr, photos, search

An Even Bettr Flickr Searchr

COMPFIGHT is a powerful new Flickr search tool. It offers all sorts of different searches. tags v full text originals only Creative Commons licensed photos “Safe” searches for those avoiding smut The best thing is that it displays roughly 250 thumbnails at a time, allowing super quick photo picking. Hot stuff. Via Boing Boing!