Old media in the stock photo industry.
New media in the stock photo industry.
Another day, and again another tiny little - how to say - trick?
As promized earlier, on every single day these apparent tricks would occur again, there will be a new notification, here and elsewhere.
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In March this year, Dieter Brinzer, Editor-in-Chief of the german magazine VISUELL, the leading magazine for the stock photo industry, published his unforgotten and legendary fax machine optimized opinion poll, together with initial media data, which he later had to adjust.
With this move Dieter Brinzer has entered beyond all doubt the Hall of Fame of the most legendary newspaper and magazine publishers in the world, together with his ingenious news editors, and for his merits in delivering what could be described as the most stunning stock photo news information source ever, he presumably will receive the Pour le Mérite, the Grand Cross of the Pour le Mérite as well as the Alfred E. Neumann Memorial Medal for Excellence In Journalism in a not so distant future.
In the light of this glory, we few others shyly stand aside.
Here´s yet another glorious example demonstrating how this stunning system constantly creates excellence in generating unique content.
[Image: Framed Alfred E. Neumann Memorial Medal for Excellence In Journalism]
"A moblogging operation should be taken as seriously, and as with as many resources and people, as a regular news operation ... Moblogging is suitable for breaking news or events with good visual images. It is not good for in-depth stories... ."
[© Image: guess who?]
A nice story ("Lessons learned from the RNC", Learning about mobile weblogging at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism):
Ladies and Gentlemen: it is now possible to leap to the forefront of journalism with technology available on the street. This is moblogging. The future is now.Continue to read the list of the little mishaps here.
Sort of.
Whoever thought of this was on to something when he or she decided to hire journalism students to use camera phones and the Internet as a nouveau wire service on the cheap. The idea was to be able to capture the ambiance of a political convention by assembling a mosiac of grainy images of the events via the camera phone. The images would give the viewer a near-real-time sense of the convention, taking advantange of the fast upload capabilities of the phone without the need to download images to a computer to edit or send. We would be a swarm of imagetakers and reporters, filing a photo every ten minutes on average, for the entire convention. Our editing team at the University of South Carolina’s Newsplex would edit our pictures and text, and receive dictation for longer stories, and post them to the moblog.In practice, this operation worked only somewhat. The problems:
The picture quality is pretty poor...
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We found it difficult to shoot some pictures, then take a time-out to jam out a sentence on the keypad. Typing any text of length on a numerical pad is s-l-o-w. Even with intelligent text... .
[© Image Father Brown Tired]
Over the last weeks emails popped up with the question "Is this blog related to Getty Images? In any way?". The response to these emails is a very time consuming task. So: no. And it will stay this way. Except for talking about John´s diet and photographer´s choice. The latter will take over the bills when this blog exceeds the Typepad limit of 5 GB bandwidth usage. This will be the case, very soon.
After the Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta "Photos ... appeared on Flickr before any of the major news services had gotten it up on their sites." (Caterina Fake/Flickr, via Hypergene Mediablog: "Citizen reportage, digital photography and Flickr").
Similar at MetaFilter: "Found a photo from a bombing before the story even broke on any of the major news sites". Two reader commented: "I think it's significant that news could be received first from a "raw" source such as those, rather than pre-packaged and pre-interpreted (and pre-linked to al Qaeda) through CNN" (Link) and "no damnable copyright/license issues as money isn't involved" (Link).
So, "How much specialization and differentation can we expect in the moblog arena?" (Link)
