Another newsroom merge

The Wall Street Journal has announced that their print and online divisions will merge into one division. The New York Times already made this move last year.

Blogs and $$$

New York Magazine had a piece this week on the bloggers (some not much older than you) who have turned their blogs into some cash flow. But note that there are now 27 million blogs out there! So not everyone is going to get famous doing this.

It's Jerry Time ...

The Globe also has a piece on Jerry Zucker, a local resident who has turned his sad sorry life into mini-movies for the Web. You can check out his site here - It's Jerry Time

Wikipedians

The Boston Globe has an article on today some of the volunteers who write and "guard" entries on Wikipedia

Photo manipulation

We are doing Photoshop Workshops this week.
Here are some links we are going to look at in class -examples of altered magazine photo covers

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/

http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-06-16-covers_x.htm

http://www.sree.net/teaching/lateditors.html

The perils of blogging

A reporter for the Dover Post in Deleware was fired for a personal blog he wrote on the side. Read about the story here.