About three and a half years ago, I started the Blind Photographers group on Flickr. I was curious to see if I was the only blind (or visually impaired) photographer around. I certainly was not alone. I asked “Is anyone out there?“. Within a short time, I had my answers.  Since then, membership in...
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NYTimes.com has a great new blog, the Lens Blog, which deals with “Photojournalism – Photography, Video and Visual Journalism Archives”. It has recently done a great series on the famous Tianeman Square reporting. Lens is the photojournalism blog of The New York Times, presenting the finest and most interesting visual and multimedia reporting — photographs,...
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I ran across a great article, Behind the Scenes: Tank Man of Tiananmen via Lens Blog @ NYTimes.com, detailing the stories behind the famous shot from Tiananmen Square. The article marks the twentieth anniversary of the crackdown and the publication of those images. Twenty years ago, on June 5, 1989, following weeks of massive protests...
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The NYTimes ran an article, The Work of Fashion Photographer Richard Avedon, with an accompanying audio slideshow today that is worth checking out. The article is inspired byt a retrospective of Avedon’s photography at the International Center of Photography. That blueprint is, broadly, the subject of a retrospective at the International Center of Photography, from...
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In today’s Pogue’s Posts Blog, Pogue repeats a question from one of his readers; “Why Are PDFs Still in Portrait Orientation?” It is a question tha t I have been asking for a while not, but one for which I offer a better solution: reflow is better than landscape. Why Are PDFs Still in Portrait...
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The Gadgetwise Blog @ NYTimes has a useful suggestion for DSLR owners on how to Take Better Photos With a Fast Prime Lens.  Prime lenses, which are lenses that do not zoom, can take better photos as they have fewer mechanical parts. Zooming in requires that you get closer to your subject and zooming...
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Being an avid news junkie and a fan of the New York Times, it was inevitable that I find the NYTimes iPhone app. I found the app a while ago and have been drafting a review.  From an accessibility point of view the app had little going for it. Since it was slow to...
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Last week’s tech section reviews the state of e-book readers in A Walk Through a Crop of Electronic Readers. THE release this week of Amazon’s Kindle 2 has put electronic book readers in the spotlight. Its proponents celebrate the ability to store thousands of titles on a single lightweight device; the access to newspapers, magazines...
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Today Amazon announced that it was surrendering to the Author’s Guild – Amazon Backs off Text-to-Speech Feature in Kindle – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com. The new Talk To Me feature, a form of text to speech, in Amazon’s Kindle will be disabled at the whim of the publisher. How many publishers will not exercise...
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On today’s Op-Ed page in the New York Times, Roy Blount, Jr, head of the Author’s Guild, has penned a piece, The Kindle Swindle?, defending his organizations attack on the new text to speech (TTS) feature in the new Amazon Kindle 2. Over at O”Reill Media, there is An Open Letter to Roy Blount,...
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