Author: Mark E. Johnson

April 1, 2007

Gmail Paper

Google has a beta program to print all of your Gmail correspondence and mail it to you. Attachments? Those, too – and if you’re emailing photos around, then you’ll get those printed on high quality paper. Limited time offer, I suspect – just today.

Categories Tech Talk

April 1, 2007

Skills journalism students NEED

I kind of feel bad about stealing so many things from Mindy McAdams’ blog, but she’s so friendly I hope she doesn’t mind too much … So here’s another post of hers that journalism students Must Read – it’s a look at “The Changing Skill Set for Journalists.”

Categories Advice & Learning/Journalism/Multimedia

April 1, 2007

How blogs get ranked by Google

Google, if you weren’t aware, indexes and ranks blogs like they do everything else on the web. (Can they rank produce vendors? I can’t find good apples in Georgia.) Mindy McAdams put up a link to a blog entry by Danny Sanchez on how the rankings work. (For what it’s worth, Technorati ranks blogs by popularity – you’re reading the...

Categories Tech Talk

March 31, 2007

Online Journalism Workshops – Blogging, Photos for the Web and Audio

Three workshops, aimed at graduating students, to get you up to speed on “online journalism.” These are FREE! The official blurb: Grady College presents a series of workshops to sharpen your online skills. Three free sessions will be taught by Mark Johnson, Grady lecturer in journalism. Space is limited; register for any or all sessions. Register with Sophie Barnes in...

Categories Advice & Learning/Multimedia

March 30, 2007

Harper's, Peter Turnley invasion of privacy suit dismissed

Photojournalist Peter Turnley, on assignment photographing the funeral of the first Oklahoma National Guard soldier to die in combat since the Korean War, was sued by the soldier’s family for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The US Court of Appeals upheld an earlier decision in the case when it rejected all of the family’s claims.

Categories Ethics & Legal

March 29, 2007

Krystal on Campus

Krystal (a southern burger chain) came to Athens this week to shoot students for possible use in their TV and print ads. The Red & Black put together a short audio slide show and posted it this morning. (Scroll down, it’s at the end of the story.) Oddly, there was an Arby’s flier loaded with coupons stuck in the printed...

Categories Advice & Learning/Good Work/Multimedia

March 29, 2007

Broadcast Journalism/Video workshop at UGA – This Saturday!

The Telecomm department here at Grady College is running a day-long workshop called the Broadcast News Bluejeans Workshop this Saturday, March 31. Segments on reporting, photojournalism, digital news gathering and video tape editing will be repeated throughout the day. Video is becoming increasingly important in the “print” world, this is a great chance to get your feet wet. (Well, for...

Categories Advice & Learning/Tech Talk

March 29, 2007

Why money is good

Okay, so that’s kind of a vague headline, but John Harrington – one of the best proponents of sensible business practices for photographers – has a very good post about why it’s important to charge reasonable rates (not cheap rates) to clients. Too many times we low-ball clients in hopes of getting a job and end up hurting ourselves, both...

Categories Business & Industry

March 28, 2007

New Eyetrack Study from the Poynter Institute

Eyetrack III is out – and it has some surprises. Readers are going deeper with online stories than print, something that is surprising. Go check it out, though the video isn’t working as of noon on Wednesday … grrr …

Categories Business & Industry/Multimedia/Tech Talk

March 27, 2007

James Nachtwey in the NY Times

The New York Times has a review of a new James Nachtwey show, hosted at two locations in NYC – one of which is the United Nations building.

Categories Good Work/Photojournalism