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• The Online Photographer highlighted a brilliant idea for goodwill marketing this week: Minneapolis photographer Scott Streble is doing a one-day free portrait shoot for anyone in the area who is unemployed. Noticing the poor quality of pictures he saw on his unemployed friends’ resumes, Scott hoped to improve his friends’ chance of landing a job by providing them with better headshots. See more details at Scott’s blog.

• Arctic glacier expert and photographer James Balog and his Extreme Ice Survey will be featured on PBS’s NOVA next Tuesday March 24. State of the Art also reminded us about an audio interview James did with Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross — insightful, as usual. Want to learn more about photography in the Arctic and Antarctic? Check out Chris Linder’s series, Tips from a science photographer.

• We want to congratulate PDN for receiving TWO Neal National Business Journalism Awards. The announcement came yesterday (March 18) from New York that PDN had won best single issue for their September 2008 Book Issue, and best blog for PDNPulse. Way to remind the world that photography is still a business, and still thriving.

• The Telegraph reported that four Spanish schoolboys, aged 18-19, are taking the term “science project” to a whole new level. Armed with a heavy duty latex balloon, made-from-scratch electronic sensor, and a digital Nikkon camera, the team from IES La Bisbal school in Catalonia managed to take amazing photos of the stratosphere in February. The helium inflated balloon flew the equipment to 20 miles above the ground and took atmospheric readings and photographs, while mapping its progress using Google Earth.