{"id":1027,"date":"2009-07-03T07:15:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T14:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2009-07-04T21:41:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T04:41:10","slug":"new-york-times-photoblogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/07\/03\/new-york-times-photoblogs\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times photoblogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fine work<\/i><\/p>\n

A couple of readers were kind enough to comment on yesterday’s piece about the Reader application put out by the New York Times and pointed me to two NYT photoblogs in the process.<\/p>\n

One is Lens<\/a> and the other is 1 in 8 million<\/a>. Both are well worth a visit though the latter does take a while to load owing to the inclusion of sound and video. That said, the presentation of both is superb and the use of short introductory sound clips in the ‘1 in 8 million’ blog is inspired, doing just enough to pique your interest.<\/p>\n


\nFrom the ‘Lens’ blog – Michael Wolf’s essay on glass<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n


\nFrom the ‘1 in 8 million’ blog<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

For a truly splendid profile of an exceptional man, take a look at this piece on Harry Reininger<\/a> by Sarah Kramer. It’s the scarcity of such people in New York that contributed to my departure from that modern Gomorrah in 1987.<\/p>\n

Nice work, NYT!<\/p>\n

By the way, it is incorrect to ascribe the demise of newsprint to financial engineering, as one commentator on yesterday’s column states. Rather, the causes are:<\/p>\n