Visual Journalism

This came across the transom, an online talk titled Assignment Egypt: Analyzing News Photos from the 18 Day Revolution. Sunday, March 20, from 10 to 11 a.m. (Eastern time).

Started off the morning with a great discussion on Disconnecting the Dots: How Our Devices Are Divisive. Roy Christopher, a grad student from the University of Texas at Austin and a one-time University of a georgia student, talked a bit about how technology was getting in the way of communicating wi each other and ourselves. Lots of notes on that,...

Shot during a presentation that was, in part, about how bloggers use material from “professional” journalists.

Have been tapping out notes furiously all day, going to do a bit of a copy and paste dump here. These are the things I have found to be interesting comments or ideas. Some are direct quotes, some are generalizations. Will attribute them when I can, but all of these are things I will be talking about more in the...