QuickLinks For 2006-01-20

• Betsy Reid of The Stock Artists Alliance is hijacking London, announcing the "Stock Artists Alliance London Event" on February 14, 2006: "Expect a candid appraisal of the realities of the stock industry with regard to licensing and distribution models."

• Swiss photo (Comstock, Liquid Library, AbleStock, Photos.com and PhotoObjects.net) and footage (DigitalVision, Filmdisc, PhotoDisc, Rubberball) distribution company and photo agency Kursiv starts blogging: Kursiv Blog.
  The first european photo agency using a blog for corporate communications had been Medicalpicture in 2003 here.

• Fotolia introduces PixMotor, the search engine for 250,000 RF stock photos.
  • Related: "Interview With Fotolia´s CEO Thibaud Elziere: "Microstock Sites Can Capture Up To 30% Of The Existing Market"

• Steve Rubel, the father of my Stock Photo Industry Press Release Cemetery: "Direct-to-Consumer Press Releases Suck".

• Talk Micro: a new micropayment stock photo discussion forum

• Leila Boujnane: "I am finally a Club Fat Ass member".

• People On The Move:
  • The PA Group appoints Stuart Nicol as Group Picture Editor
  • Jupiter's New Creative Team... (StockAsylum)

• After Nikon had reduced the film camera and accessories production some days ago, Konica Minolta quits the camera business (VNU).

• Rumours have it that a company based in Seattle, WA, is talking to a company based in Calgary, Alberta, about acquiring all of the assets of that company.

• Links to the most important events in 2006:

• Imaging USA, Austin, TX: Jan. 22 - Jan. 24
• Picturehouse London: Feb. 14, 2006
• Photo Imaging Expo, Tokyo; March 23 - 26, 2006
• 2006 Annual PACA Meeting, Chicago, IL: April 6-8, 2006
• BildArchiv 2006, Munich: April 6 to April  7
• Picturehouse Chicago: April 6, 2006
• Picturehourse Paris: May 15, 2006
• PICTA, Hamburg: May 16 - 18, 2006
• BAPLA Picture Buyer´s Fair, London: May 10 - 11, 2006
• CEPIC Congress, Biarritz/France: June 7 - June 11, 2006.
  
• Picturehouse London: June 21, 2006
• Visa pour l´Image, Perpignan: Sept. 2 - 17, 2006
• Picturehouse Germany 2006 (Cologne or Hamburg), September 2006
• Photokina, Cologne: Sept. 26 - Oct. 1, 2006
• 11th Annual PACA International Conference: October 20-22, 2006
• Picturehouse London: Oct. 31, 2006
• Picturehouse New York: Nov. 1, 2006
• Paris Photo: November 2006

• Newspapers: "shrinking budgets, loss of readers, layoffs, closures and sales"; Tiffinbox, Newspapers, RIP?

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