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The Chicago Sun-Times Says It Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Photographers

By on June 3, 2013 in Art, Culture, Hardware, Odds And Ends, Smartphones
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The Chicago Tribune reported on Thursday that its local competition, the Chicago Sun-Times, laid off its entire photography staff and plans to use a combination of reporters and freelance photographers to capture photos of the news instead. In a memo to staffers, managing editor Craig Newman informed Sun-Times reporters that they will receive “iPhone photography […]

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Shining A Light On A Shifting Paradigm

By on November 9, 2012 in Culture, Future Tech, Hardware, Internet, Odds And Ends, Smartphones, Social Media, Software
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It was the middle of my family’s big October cookout/pumpkin-carving extravaganza. Some time after dark, between half-burnt hot dogs and whole-burnt marshmallows, my seven-year-old nephew Owen lost something on the ground and shouted “DOES ANYBODY HAVE A FLASHLIGHT APP?” We laughed, and so did he after we explained it to him, but it got me […]

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