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Bhutto’s last moments, a photographer’s account

by sdulai on Dec 28, 2007 • No Comments

As I’m sure we’ve all heard, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday after a rally just weeks before elections in that country. John Moore was on hand shooting for Getty. Someone at the New York Times must have been on the ball because by this morning they had Moore’s pictures and his...

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Quick Hits: Uprooted

by sdulai on Dec 27, 2007 • No Comments

I haven’t been posting as often as I like, because while I see a lot of Multimedia out there, I don’t always see a lot of good multimedia. And then sometimes I see something that just grabs the foundations and shakes it all up like a rag doll in a pit bulls mouth. Chew it...

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The warm embrace of Mother Jones

by sdulai on Dec 25, 2007 • No Comments

A little shameless self-promotion (because personal cultural modesty isn’t in keeping with the American way). Wee! Another goal off the list.

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Tracking Santa

by sdulai on Dec 24, 2007 • No Comments

It’s cold, I’m tired and there’s a few cool things Santa related that I ran across… soooo… It’s light and fluffy time. Wired Magazine has a really funny article in the December issue that breaks down how one man can run such an empire and still do it year after year, the high tech way...

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The best layout in the history of newspapers (take a long hard look)

by sdulai on Dec 24, 2007 • No Comments

Do you see it? No? Focus on the center. Take a look at the two pictures, and no they aren’t from the same story. It maybe hard to read here, but the top image is a stand alone feature and the one below it is a news story on a stolen wallet, the surveillance camera...

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Quick hits: Driving Detroit

by sdulai on Dec 21, 2007 • No Comments

The Detroit Free Press photo staff decided to jump into the deep end with Driving Detroit, a multimedia piece that uses Google Maps as a foundation and lays over it videos, sideshows, flip book panoramas, written stories, a public forum and infographics to explore the streets, the homes and the people that make the 11th...

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Thinking out loud: We need some new tricks

by sdulai on Dec 10, 2007 • No Comments

So here’s a thought. When we were just starting out in multimedia a short 2 (3?) years ago, we were all giddy and excited and couldn’t wait to play with our new toys. And very quickly we started experimenting and trying new things and after a short gestation period with the basics many of us...

Dear Me, how’s it going, call your mother more often #JCarn

Yup, once again, welcome to my latest post for #JCarn. The Carnival of Journalism is a loose collection of journalism thinkers (and people like me) who get together to post on their blogs with their reflections on a given prompt. This month I had the opportunity to host and asked folks to write themselves a letter. As it’s the end of the year, it felt like the right time to look inward. Plus we spend so much time looking outside of ourselves at the industry/government/tech trends/government that self-reflection becomes that icky no-no that we seldom tackle. I know it’s scary, but come’on, let’s do this thing! Why? Because YOLO? “Write a letter to your younger self.” Dear Me, I’m writing to you from 2013, a little wiser, a little slower and probably still confused about why more people don’t do the right thing, but don’t let that stop you from trying. We’ve always been stubborn. I’m packing for a trip to India right now as I write this– don’t worry, you’re not married and yup, you’ll eventually leave California and actually get to fly in a plane– it’s been a wild couple of days. The last 10 or […]

Posted: December 20th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
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Write a letter to yourself! #JCarn Dec prompt

Howdy folks, After trading some e-mails with David for the great reboot of #JCarn– we were trading prompt ideas and well, I’ll be your host for December. Oh how rude of me, I’m being such a terrible host, let me take your coat, come on in, wipe your feet. As we race toward the end of 2013, it’s a natural time for reflection and in that spirit I think I’ve come up with what I hope will be an enjoyable and perhaps even cathartic prompt: “What would you write if you could send a letter to your fifteen-year-old self?” For December I would like you all to write a letter to your younger self. You can write about anything, no rules, no apologies. You may like to share with yourself advice, things to look out for, things you wished you did differently, regrets, hopes, what you’ve learned, about your life, choices… or just about anything that is on your mind. Ideally these are deeply personal to you and I hope it’ll be enlightening to others in its universality to the human condition. More often than not, if it’s important to you, it’s important to others. And who knows, maybe you’ll […]

Posted: November 11th, 2013 ˑ 7 Comments
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