An Unlikely Weapon - The Eddie Adams Story

An Unlikely Weapon Trailer from senshi on Vimeo.

"Pictures are very important because people believe photographs, and the picture can be a lie, but that person will look at that and it’s real, it becomes a real thing, people might say the written word, bullshit, the picture is what does it."

The Economics of Giving It Away

Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson on how the advent of digital bytes has changed several business models and the need to find new models in the now land of free on the Internet.

In a battered economy, free goods and services online are more attractive than ever. So how can the suppliers make a business model out of nothing?

Found via Macloo on Twitter

Sometimes it's all about timing

You gotta check out this sequence of frames capturing a suicide bomber detonating himself in a crowd of Sri Lankan Muslim men during a religious holiday in Akuressa.

Wow

POYi Documentary Project Winners

The Roanoke Times beats out the likes of Los Angeles Times and National Geographic for first place. Lots of other interesting outlets in the honorable mentions.

Will have to come back to this and get a better sense of all these productions. Too much to look at right now, holy crap.

Flickr Clock

Pretty cool visualization of Flickr video postings.

Found via Journerdism

Documentary Advertising, the future?

Pretty well done production from Honda. The cinematography is nice and the lessons behind the veil of the ad are good too. So do you feel like watching an eight minute video ad makes you want to consider buying a Honda the next time you need a car?

JL's Blog of Blogs Turned 1 year-old

It was a year ago, March 8, that I started posting all kinds of these – in my humble opinion – interesting links.

At the start of the blog it was more about the imminent destruction of the newspaper business. I used it as a self-medicating soapbox. I didn't really advertise this blog for quite some time. Just figured it would be found by a few people sometime. It was mainly for myself in many ways.

Since then it has morphed a bit into more of a catch all of digital media nuggets and unique stories with my at times senseless musings. Many of my opinions have changed since the inception of copying and pasting hyperlinks and HTML. Some for the better and some that have ultimately driven me away from the notion of what I hoped to accomplish as a visual journalist.

The future is evermore unknown, but that is also of a major benefit. There are so many possibilities with digital media, as seen in the ramblings and linkage of the past 266 days. Where things go, who knows, all I do know is there will be some fantastic things that develop. Both for the realm of journalism and for me.

Might have to get some new wheels like this