Newsweek Ends 80-Year Run With Hashtag
In a poignant statement about the fate of print publications worldwide in the last few decades, the once-venerable Newsweek magazine published its final print edition on Dec. 31, 2012, with a hashtag that read “#LastPrintIssue”.
The final cover also features a historic black-and-white photograph of the former Newsweek Building in New York City, with the tower’s old Newsweek logo...
Twitter’s New Photo-Sharing Tool Hits Market
After more than two months of beta testing among its users, Twitter announced on Aug. 10 that Twitter Images was available to the masses.
Making third-party applications such as TwitPic and yfrog unnecessary, Twitter’s new photo-sharing services enable users to add images of up to 3MB in size to a tweet by clicking the camera icon at the bottom of the page. The image appears as a thumbnail in the feed, but can be enlarged on the right-hand side of the page...
Facebook to Jump on Photo-Sharing Bandwagon
In a development seemingly timed to respond to Twitter’s announcement in June that it will be improving its photo-sharing tools, Facebook, too, is planning to launch a new app for photos soon.
Facebook’s photo app would reportedly be a mélange of several others available today, such as...
Twitter to Offer New Photo Sharing Service
Photography enthusiasts were atwitter at the ninth annual All Things Digital conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., when Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced on June 1 that the 140-character company will begin to offer photo sharing and improved search capabilities....
From the Ashes: The Rise of a New Photojournalism
Through new distribution platforms, multimedia formats and teamwork, today's photojournalists are trying to resurrect a moribund industry.
BREAKING NEWS — Photojournalism, the use of images to tell stories and convey information about topical events, from the Crimean War to this year's health-care reform debate, has died following a long and gradual illness.
The profession was approximately 150 years old...
Social Media: Don’t Be Left Behind
Social networking websites are the talk of the town, but how can they help your business?
Supporters exalt it as the great advance in communication. Detractors consider it a waste of time. Like it or not, the phenomenon of social media empowers the public at large to capture and disseminate information immediately.
But how do all these technological advances affect the photographer? Is the growth of social media killing our business? How do these changes affect the amateur?...
