You could probably write an entire book on photo-ethics in the digital age, and my goal isn’t to do that, but I thought I would do a quick follow on last week’s post on the photoshopped eclipse photo that a reader sent us.
I read with interest a story in the Wall Street Journal about a scandal in China involving a photo of a high-speed train in Tibet. Clearly a lot more at stake here than just a pretty shot of the moon and the Wachovia building. What’s also important is the way technology helped break the scandal, both in uncovering evidence of the misdeed and broadcasting the incident itself.
Good news, bad news: The current issue of Wired has a big spread on places with free WiFi. Good news. We’re on it. Bad news. They call our community “Winston-Salem County.” The city’s annexation lust hasn’t spread that far and wide ... Elsewhere in the mag is a great article on the folks who rescue capsized cargo ships. Sort of like Ocean’s 11 meets The Poseidon Adventure. As the Exxon Valdez case makes its way to the the U.S. Supreme Court, it’s particularly relevant.
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