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NPPA Best Of Photojournalism 2005 Web Site Category Winners.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL (March 25, 2005) – “This year’s Best of Photojournalism Web site contest was the most competitive ever,” Web competition organizer and Best Of Photojournalism 2005 Contest Committee member Keith Jenkins said Friday when the winners were announced. “The quality of entries across the 130 or so we judged was universally high, with very little separation between the winners in each division (large affiliated, small affiliated, and unaffiliated). And there was very little difference between the divisions themselves.”

The New York Times on the Web was awarded the Best Use of the Web honor. “After a lengthy discussion with the judges attempting to find a single package that demonstrated the best use of the Web, the panel eventually recognized The New York Times on the Web as an example of a site that has truly helped the evolution of online storytelling,” judge Andrew DeVigal said.

Looking back on the week of judging, Jenkins said, “The change this year was most evident in the judges giving an award to a ‘photoblog’ with an Honorable Mention in the Unaffiliated News Picture Story category ("Justly Married; Ephemera"), as well as with the judges’ choice of “Haiti Turns 200” by the Unaffiliated Web site BlueEyes Magazine as the contest’s Best Picture Story winner.”

Here is the full list of this year's winners.

Arular - M.I.A.

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And So it Begins

Yahoo! News - News Agency Sues Google, Testing Fair Use

"In a case that could set limits on Internet search engines, the French news agency AFP is suing Google Inc. for pulling together photos and story excerpts from thousands of news Web sites." - A.P.

Yahoo! - Flickr!

FlickrBlog.

Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr.

"Holy smokes, SOMEBODY out there is bad at keeping secrets!!  Yes! We can finally confirm that Yahoo has made a definitive agreement to acquire Flickr and us, Ludicorp. Smack the tattlers and pop the champagne corks!"

This is very, very good news! Great service, deep pockets!

NPPA Best of Photojournalism Contest

NPPA Best of Photojournalism Contest,
originally uploaded by Burnt Pixel.

Working late into the night on the first day of the Best of the Web judging.

Best of Photojournalism

I am back in St. Petersburg for another year of Best of Photojournalism judging. Running the web portion of this contest has allowed me to keep up with what is (or is not) being done by MSM on the web, as well as keep in touch with some good friends.

The recent revelations by some big newspapers that readership of their websites is now exceeding that of the print product should help us frame this years' judging. We can no longer look at these sites as add-ons; MSM must start to look at these as the first, best place for their journalism.

Doing that will also change the nature of the journalism they do because the platform and tools of the web offer different mechanisms and opportunities for reporting, informing, and story-telling.

I hope we can come out of this year's judging with a blue-print for the future.

Photography Future, Photography Past

Back to our regularly scheduled broadcast...

Some wonderful photography info in the air Thursday. Firstly, acquisiton by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art -

The Metropolitan Museum of Art said yesterday that it had acquired the Gilman Paper Company Collection of photographs, an archive that includes hundreds of works from the medium's earliest years and that is widely considered to be the most important private photography collection in the world.

The more than 8,500 photographs, some purchased by the Met and some donated by the foundation that owns them, will greatly strengthen the museum's photography holdings and make it, along with the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, one of the world's pre-eminent institutions for 19th-century photographs.

Secondly, the second coming of the photo store, as printing establishment...

Meet You at the Photo Kiosk.

TAMMY JACKSON of the Bronx likes to print her digital photos at the Costco Wholesale store in Brooklyn, where, on a recent Saturday, the lines in front of two Noritsu desktop kiosks moved quickly. That is largely because Costco does not allow editing of 4-by-6-inch prints, priced at 19 cents each, reserving the privilege for more expensive enlargements.

That does not bother Ms. Jackson. "I'm a plain Jane," she said. "I don't do a whole lot of fancy stuff." She said she preferred the interface on the kiosk at Costco to one she had tried at a drugstore, which asked her to make more choices. "It's faster," she said.

But not every kiosk user takes Ms. Jackson's approach. At Concord Camera in Concord, N.H., customers are invited to perch on stools and sip coffee while customizing images from their digital cameras on one of the store's five Agfa Image Box desktop kiosks, each placed on its own cafe-style table. Coloring books are provided for children.

Lastly, a wonderfully strange evocation of the power of photography and memory, "Hockey Hair and Other Buried Memories" by Kevin Kling on NPR.

Keeping it Real

apophenia: SXSW, why i attended and marginalized populations.

Good Points, well stated:

"It's socially and culturally not an equal playing field. You can't build a meritocracy on top of that and one doesn't exist. There are biases at every level. And if you want diversity, you need to actively go after it. Conference organizers - reach out to the women and people of color you know and ask them to brainstorm with you. Actively invite marginalized groups who you know are doing great stuff (or get your friends who are women, POC to do so). Make sure you have diversity on your board. Put together identity-driven BOFs. Invite diverse groups to the low-key events where they're underrepresented so that they can meet and greet (because not all get-togethers are conferences). Do *NOT* expect them to come to you. When you do so, you perpetuate hegemonic forces - you become part of the problem. Meritocracy doesn't emerge by just pretending it exists and without equal grounding, it is not possible."

Thanks Dave (white male) for the link.

M.I.A, Finally!

NPR : M.I.A: Activism with a DIY Hip-Hop Beat.

The first full-length CD from M.I.A -- born Maya Arulpragasam -- is called Arular after her father, a Tamil revolutionary. And beneath the CD's veneer of pop and dance beats are vivid, clashing images of war, cultural displacement and party life.

Military Industrial Banking Complex

Link: Nomination Shocks, Worries Europeans.

President Bush's nomination of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz as the next president of the World Bank was met with much surprise, little enthusiasm and some outright opposition in Europe, where he is best known as a leading proponent of a conflict deeply unpopular here, the Iraq war.

"We were led to believe that the neoconservatives were losing ground," said Michael Cox, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics. "But clearly the revolution is alive and well." - Keith B. Richburg and Glenn Frankel, The Washington Post