First we had citizen journalism. Now we have citizen photojournalism. UK-based Demotix gives independent photographers a global reach to major news media outlets such as France’s Le Monde and the UK’s Daily Telegraph.
Scoopt and Citizen Side are two other similar services.
In related news, Getty Images began sending out invitations this week where select Flickr users will be able to license their images through Getty’s Flickr Collection.
SALT Branding recently released a report on trends in branding for 2009. I’d be surprised if there was anything in here a competent brand manager or marketer wouldn’t already know. But nonetheless, they’ve done a good job refining into a nice, easy to read package. And smarter still is the timely tie in to branding in a recession.
Eight years later though, I’m still waiting for someone to reference something besides Nike-iD. Sheesh.
A recent post from Flowing Data led me to the website for the Portland agency Instrument. Last summer they completed an application for Google that beautifully visualizes the social influence of content across the Internet over time.
Would love to get my hands on this, but it looks like an internal Google R&D effort.
I was catching up on a backlog of podcasts and learned a little more about Palm’s webOS. As it turns out applications for webOS can be written with standards-based web technologies such as XHTML, Javascript, and CSS. This certainly opens the system up for a wide range of developers and will likely give their app base a jump start.
Weeks after CES the good vibes about Palm keep flowing. There is cautious optimism that they are back strong.
Poster Boy is a NYC based street artist. Using only a razor, he remixes elements from the advertisements found in the New York subway system to form beautiful (and illegal) works of art. Check out a short video to see him in action or his photos on Flickr.
Source: Wooster Collective