links for 2007-09-01

Soundslides presentation on how to identify manipulated photographs.

“The most common examples of doctored photos occur in the media, but there are serious cases of image manipulations in security and investigations as well,” says Cynthia Baron, author of the book “Photoshop Forensics,” scheduled for release in December.

Google News will now link directly to stories by the news agencies Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Press Association and the Canadian Press, rather than identical stories on newspapers’ web sites
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“Josh Cohen, business product manager of Google News, said his company would consider eventually running advertising alongside the articles it is licensing from news agencies.”

“Publishers that routinely carry wire stories on their sites could lose traffic, affecting the prices they charge online advertisers”.

Traffic to ThisIsGloucestershire spiked to 200K visits (?) in July, and ThisIsHull spiked to 180K in July — double the average for both sites over the previous six months, according to AND.

“We are where you want to find us. We don’t define ourselves as print,” [New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr] said. “We’re getting out of the mind-set that we snap a picture of the world (at a certain time) and present it to you (the next day).”

“I thought my experiement with soliciting ideas for my column a few weeks ago was quite successful. I think I’ll drop the crowd-sourcing label since it strikes me a bit pretentious. …”