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I finding it deeply worrying that the police are still doing this kind of thing:

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has hit out at the Metropolitan Police after photographer Carmen Valino said she was stopped from doing her job despite identifying herself as a journalist to police officers in Hackney on Saturday. Valino said she was photographing the crime scene from outside a police cordon. 'A police sergeant approached Valino telling her that she was disrupting a police investigation and to hand over her camera,' reported the London Photographers' Branch of the NUJ.
C'mon, Coalition, if you really believe in Big Society and civil liberties, turn this around. 
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Zi8 on a chair
Trying out a little project to boost internal knowledge sharing and communication. I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow.
Canon EOS 5D

Image via Wikipedia

I find it interesting that, while many journalists try to convince me that we should be pushing towards better and better video kit (where better = more expensive and complicated), many pros are going in the opposite direction.


Amazon will sell you one of those for £1,700. That's pretty cheap for a TV camera - and you can shoot magazine quality stills with it, too...

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There's a good rule of thumb in life: everyone makes mistakes

If you subscribe to that, you tend to allow people chance to correct their mistakes, and it's in that situation that you'll discover their true character.

Take the issue of using other people's photographs in your work. This morning, I found this article in my feed reader:

danah boyd on Techcrunch
"That picture look awfully familiar, I though." Oh, yeah. Because it's one of mine. And it isn't attributed. The picture is Creative Commons licensed, so people are free to use it, but there's a requirement for attribution

Fair enough, I thought. Techcrunch has made a mistake. Let's give them the chance to correct. I contacted the author, Jason Kincaid, via Twitter. And this was his response:

Jason Kincaid Attributes
And sure enough, within minutes, my attribution was in place:

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And that's a model of how to do it. This is the second time I've had to do this recently, and the reaction I've got both times contrasts sharply with that sometimes displayed by the mainstream media

This is not hard. But it does require you seeing yourself as just one of a community of amateur and professional publishers. Why do traditional media types find that so hard?

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From an article about Kodak's difficult decade:

Even though they talked about being in imaging and memories - their financial base was still in film, and even though they could move conceptually, they could see no way to move economically (and I suspect that many of us sitting around the Kodak board table at the time would have come to similar conclusions).creativedisruption.net, Creative Disruption, Jan 2010

Much for publishers to learn here...

Creative Commons Watch

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Most of my photos on Flickr are Creative Commons licensed, and I like to keep half an eye on where they appear. A couple have popped up in my in-box in recent weeks:

For some reason, my pics from the various incarnations of Le Web seem to get used more often than anything else...
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Canon 7D
For the first time in an age, I managed not to schedule any meetings and take myself off to the Tuttle Club this morning. In fact, I've been so bad at going that I have missed the ICA phase entirely, leaping straight from the Coach and Horses to Leon in Spitalfields.

I'd blocked out the morning in my diary anyway, but I was delighted to learn from Lloyd that Canon would be sponsoring the morning, as I'm a long term Canon SLR and DSLR user, and getting the opportunity to play with their new kit was too good to be missed.

On the whole, people at work tend to know me as a champion of the "quick'n'dirty" approach to photos and videos in reporting. And I think that's valid. The social media era is pushing journalists towards being multi-media workers, and basic kit is (a) great for learning (b) easier to use, and thus gets used more and (c) often enough for most journos. But there are specialist tasks and situations which demand better kit. And some journalists will continue to have a bias towards particular elements of multimedia.
The observant amongst you might have noticed the appearance today of a handful of panoramic shots of the venue, like this:

Outside at Fazeley Studios
And, indeed, this:

be2camp session
These are the result of me acquiring a rather lovely little iPhone app called AutoStitch. That does all the picture matching, assembly and cropping actually on the phone. It's one of the first apps I've come across that really takes advantage of the fact that the iPhone is basically a computer with a camera attached to really offer a new photographic opportunity. You'll probably be subjected to a good few of its results until I get bored of it...

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