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		<title>Blind Photographers: The New York Times on Kurt Weston and Blind Photography</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;Is anyone out there?&#8220;. Within a short time, I had my answers.  Since then, membership in the group has grown to over 150, over half of which are visually impaired photographers who contribute images to the group pool and thoughts to the discussion forums. There is even a regional group, Visually-impaired photographers in the UK, run by a great guy, Brian Negus. Over the last year, we have taken our Flickr group to the next step. With the skilled help from blind photog, Alex de Jong, we have built a web site, Blind Photographers, for our group. The site features both a photo blog, with a new image daily from one our members, and articles, written by, for and about blind photogrpahers. Not only does the site feature related news, but alsow includes equipment reviews, philosophical musings and personal stories. On the site, you can read about Project BlindSighted, where members discuss their vision and technique. We are making some inroads into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lens Blog @ NYTimes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes.com has a great new blog, the Lens Blog, which deals with &#8220;Photojournalism &#8211; Photography, Video and Visual Journalism Archives&#8221;. 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, videos and slide shows. A showcase for Times photographers, it also seeks to highlight the best work of other newspapers, magazines and news and picture agencies; in print, in books, in galleries, in museums and on the Web. And it will draw on The Times&#8217;s own pictorial archive, numbering in the millions of images and going back to the early 20th century. Check it ou. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Tank Man of Tiananmen @ Lens BlogBlind Photographers: The New York Times on Kurt Weston and Blind PhotographyTime for a Fast Prime Lens?Fun Photography with PhotojojoModel-morphosis @ NYTimes.com]]></description>
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		<title>Tank Man of Tiananmen @ Lens Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 in Beijing, resulting in the deaths of hundreds, a lone man stepped in front of a column of tanks rumbling past Tiananmen Square. The moment instantly became a symbol of the protests as well as a symbol against oppression worldwide — an anonymous act of defiance seared into our collective consciousnesses. The story includes both the four famous photos and blurbs from the photographers who took these iconic images, so it is well worth checking out. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Lens Blog @ NYTimes.comSlashdot &#124; Bionic Eye Gives Blind Man SightBlind Photographers: The New York Times on Kurt Weston and Blind PhotographyThe Work of Fashion Photographer Richard Avedon &#8211; NYTimes.comTime for a Fast Prime Lens?]]></description>
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		<title>The Work of Fashion Photographer Richard Avedon &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 20:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s photography at the International Center of Photography. That blueprint is, broadly, the subject of a retrospective at the International Center of Photography, from May 15 to Sept. 6. From his earliest, sun-splashed pictures in 1944 to portraits in 2000 that convey his fashion fatigue, the I.C.P. exhibition is the largest survey of Avedon’s fashion work since the Metropolitan Museum show in 1978. The slidewhow offers full screen images with a pair of informative audio essays by the exhibit curators. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Audio Books &#8211; New York TimesLighthouse&#8217;s Insights Shows off Art by the BlindSensory Photography: Exhibit and SlideshowTank Man of Tiananmen @ Lens BlogModel-morphosis @ NYTimes.com]]></description>
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		<title>Pogue Asks: Why Are PDFs Still in Portrait Orientation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s Pogue’s Posts Blog, Pogue repeats a question from one of his readers; &#8220;Why Are PDFs Still in Portrait Orientation?&#8221; 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 Orientation? From today’s mailbag: Hi Dave! Since you’ve been writing about pet peeves recently, here’s one of mine: Why are PDF documents still mostly in portrait instead of landscape orientation? Be it eBooks, user guides for software, or anything else that is clearly intended to be viewed mainly on screen, it mostly comes in vertical orientation, requiring a lot of zooming in and out, plus some extra scrolling (if you don’t have one of those fancy pivot monitors, that is). I suppose it’s mostly because programs like Word, InDesign, etc. initially come up with this page orientation because it’s what we’re used to; when it gets printed, it’s mostly in portrait mode. But… who prints that kind of stuff anymore? Most of the PDFs I read never end up on paper, so it would make sense if electronic documentation came in landscape orientation. Wouldn’t it? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for a Fast Prime Lens?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 out means you have to walk away, but this inconvenience is off set by the prime lens&#8217; larger aperture. A fast prime lens’ larger aperture (smaller f number) enables you to snap photos in lower light because it lets in more light. That also enables you to use faster shutter speeds, which reduces the likelihood of camera shake. Nikon has just introduces a new prime lens, the Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX Lens, for its prosumer DSLR line that runs about $200. It will definitely be my next lens. The only question is when! {Donations welcome. :)} Seriously, though, I am stuck about what next to get. There is no pressure to decide, but that does not stop me from planning. The new lens costs about $200, which is about the same as a new flash set up. Strobist reports favorably on the new budget flash, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing the  NY Times, iPhone Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 load articles and hard to read, I did not use it often and procrastinated finishing the review. Then I checked my App Store for updates tonight and found a new version of the Times for the iPhone. At first, I did not think much had changed besides a trendier color scheme. The font is small and difficult to make out. The app swivels, but the font stays the same. There is no zoom on the main page either. But the is where the similarities end. The first noticeable difference is the speed. The new iteration loads articles much faster, leaving less wasted time. Even if I can not skim through the titles on the front page, I can skim through the articles themselves quickly and easily. Now you can also save article for later reading and send them quickly via email. But How Accessible Is It? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvesting a Crop of Electronic Readers @ NYTimes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;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 and blogs while on the go; and the ability, at the click of a button, to own one of hundreds of thousands of titles in seconds. I can&#8217;t add much more without having tested the devices myself. So I’ve come around on my opposition to e-book. Somewhat. With a device like the Kindle, I could see myself reading happily on the train and buying books instantly. Despite these added conveniences, I don’t think e-books will replace books anytime soon. It is probably time that these devices are compared from an accessibility point of view. Care to lend me one? If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Accessing your Kindle on the iPhoneRead it to Me: Kindle 2.0 has Text-to-SpeechBookshelf AccessBlount Bluntly Dismisses the Blind on the NYTimes&#8217; Op-Ed PageAccessing the New Kindle DX]]></description>
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		<title>One Small Step Back for Amazon, One Giant Leap Backwards for Access</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Amazon announced that it was surrendering to the Author&#8217;s Guild &#8211; Amazon Backs off Text-to-Speech Feature in Kindle &#8211; Bits Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com. The new Talk To Me feature, a form of text to speech, in Amazon&#8217;s Kindle will be disabled at the whim of the publisher. How many publishers will not exercise the option to kill TTS? This will likely undo the biggest advance in accessible reading devices since the large print book. Therefore, we are modifying our systems so that rightsholders can decide on a title by title basis whether they want text-to-speech enabled or disabled for any particular title. We have already begun to work on the technical changes required to give authors and publishers that choice. With this new level of control, publishers and authors will be able to decide for themselves whether it is in their commercial interests to leave text-to-speech enabled. We believe many will decide that it is. If the publishers do choose to kill TTS, Amazon should enable this feature for the blind. They should partner with the NLS. Anyone who qualifies for the NLS&#8217; services should be able to register with Amazon for TTS enabled books. Somehow I do not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blount Bluntly Dismisses the Blind on the NYTimes&#8217; Op-Ed Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On today&#8217;s Op-Ed page in the New York Times, Roy Blount, Jr, head of the Author&#8217;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&#8221;Reill Media, there is An Open Letter to Roy Blount, Jr. on the Occasion of Him Speaking Like a Dinosaur, which offers good counterarguments on the issue of TTS and audio rights. My purpose is to point out his ingorant dismissal of the blind. In his words: What the guild is asserting is that authors have a right to a fair share of the value that audio adds to Kindle 2’s version of books. For this, the guild is being assailed. On the National Federation of the Blind’s Web site, the guild is accused of arguing that it is illegal for blind people to use “readers, either human or machine, to access books that are not available in alternative formats like Braille or audio.” In fact, publishers, authors and American copyright laws have long provided for free audio availability to the blind and the guild is all for technologies that expand that availability. (The federation, though, [...]]]></description>
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