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Tuesday, March 25, 2003 |
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Kottke: The ball and chain is out of town for few days so I did today what every red-blooded American male does in this situation: I went shopping at Bed Bath & Beyond for fluffy, white bath towels and a bath mat. Heh.. mine is in New York for a week, and I went to Williams Sonoma... and one quick trip to Fry's... Comments 10:13:12 PM 
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Strange Radio news aggregator behavior: nothing I post on gulker.com after 1:00 PM seems to move on the Radio/Weblogs.com RSS feed. My copy of Radio shows the files upstreaming, and they show up on the weblogs.com recent updates page, but they don't seem to be moving on the news aggregator. Any clues, Radio users? Comments 5:41:48 PM
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Salon: A Florida Web-hosting company pulls the plug on a site that dared to show graphic images of war. Following up on the discussion of to show or not to show, below... Comments 5:30:04 PM
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POWs and the Geneva convention are the topic of this article in tomorrow's (from a Pacific Standard Time perspective) Guardian, sent by Jon Tringham. Let the flames (email variety) come, but I think the Bush administration's demonstrated aversion to American and International law will come back to haunt them... either you embrace the rules and play by them, or you don't... Comments 5:23:45 PM
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Uh-Oh: Hardware Sense Error 0x046200000 seems to mean the stepper motor in my (formerly) trusty Nikon LS30 scanner has failed. Sigh... I've emailed Nikon support, but I'm guessing this is a show stopper. Any suggestions on a high-res film scanner, gladly received... here's Popular Photography's '7 best film scanners' article... Comments 3:56:21 PM
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 Here's the Linux machine's desktop showing xawtv and the Radio blogging software running in Mozilla. Everything you need to publish from multiple news sources to a global audience for a couple hundred bucks. If I can get my old Nikon LS-30 scanner to talk to Vuescan or SANE, I'll publish a better picture of the old SF Examiner picture desk. Click to enlarge, btw...Comments 12:29:44 PM
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Al Jazeera's English site is being hacked according to the Wall Street Journal. Some of the headlines are likely to upset Americans, especially pro-war types. But, guys, aren't we-all supposed to be on the side of tolerating diverse opinions? Comments 12:24:44 PM
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 Moore's law and the two gulf Wars: Gulf War I saw me sitting with about $100,000 worth of gear on the old San Francisco Examiner's photo and makeup desk. My job was to get the best pictures possible on deadline and to place them on the front page and elsewhere in 5 daily editions.
Today, in Gulf War II, I have at least as good access to news sources and much more rapid page make-up and publishing than I did then, using this $800 Linux machine I built with parts from Fry's. In particular, there's a $39 framegrabber card, which along with xawtv and GIMP, makes for better quality frame grabs than the proprietary $50,000 Sony system I used then. The truly amazing thing is that my little blog occasionally has a readership as big as some of the Examiner editions I helped produce... |
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Al-Jazeera launched an English language Website today. Worth keeping an eye on what 1.2 billion people in the Arab/Muslim world are seeing... and not just during the war, either... Comments 11:01:55 AM
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Google phone search: I just typed my area code and phone number into Google, and got this:
Which means if you can get my phone number, you can very easily get a map to my house. I can think of lots of situations where that would be handy: I can also imagine some that wouldn't. Fair enough, I do allow my phone number to be published in a local phone book, but I really wish Google had alerted the word to this feature before they did it. At the least I think this should be opt-in, not opt-out... and they don't allow me to leave the phone number and just delete the maps... |
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Tim Porter on publishing disturbing photos and, the information factory, an interesting follow-on to my post about same, yesterday. Tim was an assistant ME at The Examiner when I was there... perceptive guy... and, Tim I can't believe Carl Nolte is in Iraq... Comments 10:16:08 AM
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Gavin on the ethics of publishing grisly pictures - and be aware that there is a disturbing photo on Gavin's blog. Newsweek's Jonatahan Alter was interviewed about same on NBC's Today show today: he thinks editors should exercise discretion, and consider sources, but he thinks ultimately they should be shown. Most of the world, certainly the Arab world, is seeing grim pictures of what Iraq claims are civilian casualties of U.S. attacks, as well as the bodies of American soldiers. This is war, this is what happens in wars: predictable, awful things happen to children's and women's and men's bodies when struck by cruise missiles and other ordnance. When I worked as a photographer and photo editor, the unspoken rule was 'never close to home' - meaning that you didn't print grisly photos of victims who were members of the local community, but you did publish photos of those who lived far away. Remember Nick Ut's photo of Kim Phuc, the young, naked napalm victim fleeing down a road in Viet Nam? It was published widely, and won a Pulitzer prize. Many think that Nick's photo drove home the horrors of that war, and marked the beginning of a shift in U.S. public opinion against the war.
The U.S. media effort, so far, has been one of the singularly most unquestioning efforts I have ever seen - it has been highly sanitized. I have been in the position of weighing the right to privacy of victims and the feelings of relatives against fairly and accurately informing a readership, and it's never an easy call. But I do think it's important that Americans be informed, and know and see the suffering on both sides. War really is hell, let's face up to that, and cover it as best we can... let readers make up their own mind... |
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Roger: how to increase traffic to your blog: just put in the words RAF Fairford and Webcam. Amazing how fast it works, too! http://www.ridey.net/blog/2003/03/21.html#a190 http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=raf+fairford+webcam
Heh.. and I thought Panties for Peace would do it... but then again, the War is more popular than sex and mp3s, too... |
Updated 4/16/04; 12:28:41 PM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 12:28:41 PM
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