If your fob is lost, you'll sob over cost
The hardest thing I’ve had to do for my internship so far is by far the most mundane — designing an order form. I’ve been writing press releases and editing jacket copy and catalog copy, and while it’s all hard work and pretty taxing, making a nice-looking order form that fits in a really small space took a lot out of me.
So here’s the finished result for better or worse. (At least until I’m given some revisions.) Hopefully this is a good form — and I don’t have to do another one for a long time.
Walmart won't print my photos
Walmart has a policy of not reprinting photos that “look professional.” So even though our wedding photographer has given Ashley and I all the negatives and told us that we can do whatever we want with them, Walmart doesn’t believe us and wants a signed release before they’ll do anything. Oh, and they kept the CD full of images that we gave them.
Who appointed them the copyright police? If I had a DSLR camera and turned in some photos that “looked professional,” would I have to prove to them that I took the pictures before they’d print them for me?
I don’t know, maybe this is good for photographers or something. All I know is that it’s making me very angry right now.
Update: I should have said, “I know this is good for photographers.” I certainly don’t want to make it any easier for someone to go around ripping off other people’s work.
Reinventing Journalism On The Web: Links As News, Links As Reporting
News orgs need to play to the strengths of their medium; i.e. make hypertext documents that act like hypertext documents.
Just as the reported quote is an essential element of journalism, on the web the “reported link” must become an essential element of journalism.
There is a fear that once readers leave the news org’s site they won’t come back. That’s valid, I suppose, but there’s no point being on the Web if a news org won’t act like it’s on the Web.
