The day has arrived.  You have the opportunity to build a viable industry again.
General world news and published opinion have become commodities. Anyone can publish to the Web. The traditional standard of presentation — print — is dying.
Stock photography is a commodity now that everyone has a digital camera to create good images and our [...]

This week Rosh talks about the importance of photography, e-paper and choosing a camera.

Time 30:00
Hosted by Rosh Sillars
This podcast is about social, digital and new media and how it relates to the photographer.
Topics on this week’s show:  Photo media magazine, Don’t count out the power of traditional media, Olympus stylus, samsung, photoshop elements, Photoshop elements, photoshop, [...]

 

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Yahoo! launched its new front page about a week ago.  It’s clean, it integrates social media, and it offers local news on the front page. This is a great deal for local print media; unfortunately, it is 10 years too late.
Yahoo has enough issues of its own. They have made a lot of bad moves [...]

After years of the newspaper’s decline from crown jewel of the local community to corporate investment, it is time to let the newsprint medium die. If we let the traditional resource die, we can invent the news source of the future.

The traditional media are killing themselves slowly every day with a short-sighted need to [...]

Baby new year arrived this year wearing a smiling face, a party hat, and 2009 glasses. After the fanfare came a stampede of fingers on keyboards, as folks signed up for social media accounts. Social media is here. The tipping point has arrived.

It seems like every week the death knell sounds for another traditional media [...]

My wife Shirley is stepping back into the working world after taking a break to stay home with our youngest daughter.   She worked as a copy editor for a local newspaper; now she is setting sail as  a professional freelance editor and writer.  During the two-year break, the world of editing and publishing that she [...]

The most exciting part of being a media photographer is that you have the opportunity to meet great people and witness events first hand.
Unlike commercial photographers, whose work remains nameless, the photojournalist’s identity is revealed to the world through the photo credit. Most importantly, a photojournalist is given the awesome responsibility of recording the [...]

This week I talk about social media such as twitter, facebook, flickr and friendfeed.  I also offer a few thoughts about print and photography.  This podcast is a little rough. I almost re-recorded it, but what the heck.  Let it run, don’t be too critical.  
If you have topics to share, call the comment line [...]

Upgrade in online color print
management
I found this to be an important upgrade for printing images in the new
media photography world. Note this is a UK company.
The information below is taken directly from Theprintspace press release.
London, England (PRWEB) July 9, 2008 — theprintspace has extended
their groundbreaking ‘DIY’ photographic printing process to the web.
theprintspace.com will be the [...]

In this weeks podcast I talk about the blog posts coming up. I also refer
to Leanard Pitts column on the future of newspapers (The links will be in
Tuesdays post). I chat about my experience with the old media
newspaper industry compared to what Mr. Pitts writes about.
Rosh

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