weblog - from the latin webarum, 'to think and speak endlessly of self', and logiorum, 'to cause irritation by troublesome, often repeated articulation'
May's The Digital Journalist presents a gallery of images from Jonathan Alpeyrie of Veterans from around the world.
In this age of cheap patriotism, when the greatest war sacrifice most of us makes is the damage caused to our clothing through pinning on little flags, it's good to be reminded this Memorial Day that it wasn't always so...
His aim was to photograph and interview this dying generation of combatants, something that had certainly been done many times before, but what Alpeyrie wanted to do that was different was to photograph veterans from every country that fought in the war.
BuzzFeed is a New York based startup building an innovative platform for publishing and tracking viral media and online buzz. We are seeking a talented developer to expand a strong core team of two developers and a front end designer. The ideal candidate is an experienced, New York based, Perl programmer with experience building web applications.
I almost bought one of these for my desk, but $22.00 is just too much to spend, especially when it looks like Satan may be coaching the Knicks next season. I mean, Jesus has never even made it to the playoffs.
I found this video while digging through an old hard drive...I made it for a web project called Weekly DV. Each week they asked for short videos on a specific topic. this one was "orange".
...a civilized society depends not on the people who are currently the most civilized, but those who are most willing to accept change, as social or cultural groupings change, split or coalesce.
Inevitably this means reasonable people rather than faithful people.
On cross examination by defense attorney William DuBois, Andrew Conry-Murray said he was a computer technology writer and agreed with DuBois' characterization that computer programmers "are a little bit socially retarded."
"Some are more socially retarded than others?" DuBois asked.
Apartment Therapy, a long time client of mine, is looking for a full time programmer. Looking for a great job doing interesting things? Then this is the gig for you.
We've been adding some new features to the BuzzFeed widget code, and I am testing it out here on das pill. This not yet ready for public consumption, but if you click on over at the left on one of the buzzfed images, you can see some of our handy work.
A few months ago I took over a position from my good friend Gina producing the Digital Journalist, "A Multimedia Magazine for Photojournalism in the Digital Age". The DJ continually impresses me with the quality and depth of photojournalism they promote each month. The latest is no exception:
Magnum 60 Years - It sounds like the beginning of a really bad joke: There was this Englishman, Frenchman, Hungarian and Pole who got together to form a photographers' cooperative.