Today at PMA ’07 Microsoft announced a new “Photo HD” format. According to the Microsoft press release… “HD Photo offers compression with up to twice the efficiency of JPEG, with fewer damaging artifacts, resulting in higher-quality images that are one-half the file size. In addition, HD Photo offers increased image [...]

POP photo is reporting on the first $3M Photograph. An Andreas Gursky diptych sold for over $3.3 million at a London art (not photo) auction to an undisclosed bidder.

Have you seen the Newseum’s NewsMania game that updates the questions every day? I could literally play this everyday. I do well on the reporter level, but not so hot as an editor. My wife, Jennifer, and I always compete on the MSNBC news quiz to see who does the [...]

If you’ve followed my newspaper posts, you’ve noticed that I’ve discussed the circulation declines and retrenchment of regional newspapers back into their metropolitan area. One area where the newspaper industry is not hurting is the small to medium market newspaper. Media Life reports 75 to 80 percent of the American [...]

South by Southwest Interactive 2007 kicked off today. I went last year, but couldn’t make it this year. By far, it’s the best interactive media conference around. All of the web rock stars are in attendance and presenting. Where else can you strike up a conversation with Eric Meyer about [...]

Mark Glaser takes an in depth look on his PBS Mediashift blog/column atnewspapers hiring programmers to work in the newsroom. Glaser highlights programmers with no journalism experience making the transition to a newsroom. Clyde Bentley from the Mizzou School of Journalism points out that most of their journalism students are [...]

Didn’t get to attend the Inland Press Association’s Key Executives conference in Tuscon last week? Howard Owens shares a quick over of his notes from the IPA.

If you frequently read my blog you know that I enjoy web design, photography, politics and video production, but newspapers and online journalism are what really excite me. I am particularly interested in innovations at newspapers. In fact, I wrote my master’s thesis on online newspapers use of technology. Last [...]

Last month I posted 31 times on this blog. That’s a record in a month for me. I am especially proud of that many posts in the month with only 28 days. Apparently, there is something about February and blogging that I really like. February was my peak blogging month [...]

This year all the TV networks are promoting their websites and advertising the fact that you can visit their sites and watch their shows online. I’ve really ignored this facet of online video because I really don’t have the time to go watch an hour long TV shows on the [...]