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OK, I'll just work 80 hours a week :)

5/24/2002 4:37:59 AM
Posted By: Rick Brown

I'm not arguing with the conclusion that there should be more photos on newspaper sites. The addition of more photos than those published in print, either within individual articles or as separate photo features, seems to be a logical and rather easy way to generate original content for online, even for modest operations. I try to capitalize on that resource as much as I can. However, I suspect I know the primary answer to the question, why isn't it done more? Limited time, resources and revenues. For example, if your staff is overworked producing what's already online, your editorial system makes it an extra chore to manipulate pictures, the online editor has to chase down photographers to clarify captions on pictures that didn't make print, and the online operation isn't setting sales records to plow back into expanding staff and software capabilities, all that works against improvement. Nevertheless, now that I've griped.. er, elaborated about that, I still advocate overcoming those hurdles for the potential long term gain involved. (Oh, and in case my photographers are reading this, that "chasing down" comment is purely hypothetical.)

Hey, *I* use pictures !

5/22/2002 10:24:52 PM
Posted By: John H. Farr

I know that news sites don't make much use of pictures, not nearly as much as they could, certainly, but I have been posting a daily image from New Mexico at Fotofeed.com for over a year. The page is listed with New Mexico magazine's link index (quite the honor) and I know for a fact that there are many other daily image sites running, many of them in the UK. A friend of mine has an excellent blog that features not only daily images but also links extensively to many photography sites: .

In this area as in others, the hidebound newpaper sites seem very slow to get with the possibilities of the times.

John H. Farr

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