Comments on: Photo assignments from bloggers: new model or same old problems? 1 http://blog.livebooks.com/2009/02/assignments-for-blogs-1/ A collaborative online community that brings together creative professionals of all disciplines, working together to keep our professions relevant, respected, and profitable Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:36:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Zoltan http://blog.livebooks.com/2009/02/assignments-for-blogs-1/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Zoltan Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:34:41 +0000 http://blog.livebooks.com/?p=895#comment-13 Hi !! I am so glad to see you workin'!What else can we do? And moreover you have been shootin' black and white!! Ohh man, Viva Obama !! Congratulation !! Zoltan Hi !!

I am so glad to see you workin’!What else can we do?
And moreover you have been shootin’ black and white!!
Ohh man, Viva Obama !!
Congratulation !!

Zoltan

]]> By: ye qin zhu http://blog.livebooks.com/2009/02/assignments-for-blogs-1/comment-page-1/#comment-4 ye qin zhu Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:49:51 +0000 http://blog.livebooks.com/?p=895#comment-4 Frankly, I think it's all the same with variants on the topography, meaning the source, place, site, etc. At the core of it, blogs and editorials, as well as any media outlet is a place to veer public opinion towards its own ideologies. Even on the blogoshpere, where there are multiple perspectives, generating dialogue and confusion, the values behind it is that under this heap of confusion there is something more true or more particular to one's own questioning to be found. The importance of the topography(place) is the reputation it has and the how they go about gathering/delivering information. The gathering/delivering of subject is what sets each outlet apart. They are the laws that define what is valuable information and who the audience is. As the site traffic increases, the site and it's mission begins to insert itself into media dialogue, promoting what it thinks is a more apt set of ideologies. Regardless of scale, contemporary media can operate on a one to one basis. Where as social philosopher Adorno would once say, we are being sold the same shit under the pretense of individuality; technology now has it that we can connect on the minutest detail. There is no distance between producer and receiver, they can be one. In other words, we are the archivers, archaeologist, historian, perhaps even cultural producers; we do not have to follow the prevailing hegemony. ok, that was a bit divergent, but i am positive about this blog and how it conducts itself. If paying for a photojournalist fits in the mission of the site and makes it more efficient to operate the site, then I am 100% for it. -Ye Qin Frankly, I think it’s all the same with variants on the topography, meaning the source, place, site, etc. At the core of it, blogs and editorials, as well as any media outlet is a place to veer public opinion towards its own ideologies. Even on the blogoshpere, where there are multiple perspectives, generating dialogue and confusion, the values behind it is that under this heap of confusion there is something more true or more particular to one’s own questioning to be found.
The importance of the topography(place) is the reputation it has and the how they go about gathering/delivering information. The gathering/delivering of subject is what sets each outlet apart. They are the laws that define what is valuable information and who the audience is. As the site traffic increases, the site and it’s mission begins to insert itself into media dialogue, promoting what it thinks is a more apt set of ideologies.

Regardless of scale, contemporary media can operate on a one to one basis. Where as social philosopher Adorno would once say, we are being sold the same shit under the pretense of individuality; technology now has it that we can connect on the minutest detail. There is no distance between producer and receiver, they can be one. In other words, we are the archivers, archaeologist, historian, perhaps even cultural producers; we do not have to follow the prevailing hegemony. ok, that was a bit divergent, but i am positive about this blog and how it conducts itself. If paying for a photojournalist fits in the mission of the site and makes it more efficient to operate the site, then I am 100% for it.
-Ye Qin

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