April 8th, 2005
The British Press Photographers’ Association has published the online gallery of its “New Year’s Day” collaborative photo project, and it’s a nice example of how lots of photographers can combine their efforts to create something very interesting.
“The first collaborative project to follow Five Thousand Days is New Years Day. Members were invited to submit up to five pictures taken in the first twenty four hours of 2005 to form a timeline web gallery - a kind of snapshot of who was where doing what as the new year began. The photographs form a fascinating document with images ranging from the tragedy of the immediate aftermath of the Asian Tsunami to the spectacle of fireworks over the BA London Eye and the mundanity of family life in the UK.”
April 6th, 2005
This site has a new addition - Snappertalk Discussion Forums. You can get to them via that link, or there are direct forum links on the left of this page. Anyone can view, but you have to register to post.
My hope is for them to become a common discussion area to share tips and problems. They’re empty at the moment so start posting and let me know your comments, suggestions, etc and I’ll try to help out on any questions posted. Thanks, Ben
April 5th, 2005
Congratulations to AP Photographers Bilal Hussein, Karim Kadim, Brennan Linsley, Jim MacMillan, Samir Mizban, Khalid Mohammed, John B. Moore, Muhammad Muheisen, Anja Niedringhaus, Murad Sezer and Mohammed Uraibi who shared this year’s Pulitzer prize for breaking news photography for their coverage out of Iraq.
April 4th, 2005
I recently bought a usb-phone to use with Skype (the same as the Firebox one mentioned before, but called the Cyberphone K and from Maplins) and it works very nicely indeed. Since then I’ve found myself using Skype a lot more - I know some favour headsets because they can do other things during a call like typing etc, but I prefer a standard phone setup.
There are some third-parties out there writing software to use with Skype, and one of them is Alex Rosenbaum who has come up with a great free/donationware windows application called Skype Answering Machine (SAM) that turns your Skype into a fully-featured digital answering machine whilst you are away. You can then play back the messages when you return and hit a button to call the person back. Future releases plan to let you have the sound file automatically emailed to you so you could pick up your messages anywhere, and also be able to record conversations - which I’m sure will be extremely useful for journalists needing a recording to check against their notes, or for legal purposes.
It’s not exactly the same as the paid-for Skype Voicemail service but is definitely a worthy alternative that may actually suit some users better. There’s also a similar product called HotRecorder that comes in both free-but-advertising-supported and paid-for versions.
If you are actually interested in all this stuff, Skype Journal is a good place to look for the latest news.
