"Wikipedia articles have been added to Google Maps. … Clicking on the ‘W’ tag will open an information window containing the Wikipedia article. Panoramio photos can also be turned on via the same ‘More’ button."

How to create a Google Map of photographs or news items in 35 minutes….

"On Thursday, [Sports Illustrated] will introduce the Vault, a free site within SI.com that contains all the words Sports Illustrated has ever published and many of the images, along with video and other material, in a searchable database."

Kyle McRae reflects on launching the "citizen journalism" photo agency Scoopt.

"Major League Baseball wants to ban news sites from publishing galleries of baseball game photos, and media outlets aren’t happy about it."

"Photo agencies are increasingly relying on submissions from regular folk who either happen to bump into celebrities while carrying digital cameras, or who have injected themselves into the cat-and-mouse game of celebrity snapshots …"

"Photographers at the Indianapolis Star have come up with a novel way to follow the NFL’s guidelines and produce video-like multimedia content — using time-lapse photography to create audio slideshows that look like video."

EPUK’s anti-awards for those who have brought grief to editorial photographers in 2007. Winners include police officers, NUJ mag The Jounralist, certain paparazzi photographers, Hugh Grant and more.

Editorial Photographers UK blog rips Roy Greenslade, Jeff Jarvis, Shane Richmond (and Jeremy Dear for good measure) over the NUJ convergence row: "[W]hat’s so cutting-edge, high tech and future-proof about any of these people’s work?"

"Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton have yet to lodge a complaint with the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) but are reportedly considering ‘legal action’ against the paparazzi who chased them last week."

NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear responds to photographers over the Drogheda Independent row: "In local newspapers and in many online operations – with or without agreements – reporters are carrying cameras and photographers are writing copy."

Spot your editors wearing silly costumes. That’s Clare Gogerty from Coast in the lobster suit.

"I wouldn’t like to be a local newspaper photographer right now," [Kyle] MacRae said in an interview with Black Star Rising. "You’re competing with your own readers."

Martin Belam looks for corrections in the national newspapers about the meerkat photo hoax… And finds remarkably little.