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That impulsive duck-face kissy photo you took of yourself and your friend at the Apple store to test out the new iPad's camera may be destined for an art gallery wall.

This article by Noam Cohen describes the controversy over the use of public photos on flickr. Flickr is a website used to share images with family and friends, which is now being used by company's and site's selling images without the approval of their owners. One example was Virgin Mobile's use of a picture of Alison Chang, a 15 year old, in one of their campaigns without her knowledge. The picture was under the protection of a creative commons that allowed it to be used for commercial use, making this issue more about privacy than about copyright. Virgin Mobile responded that they were "promoting creative freedom and didn't do anything wrong."

"A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave is fighting to have her benefits reinstated after her employer's insurance company cut them, she says, because of photos posted on Facebook. [Her insurer] confirmed that it uses the popular social networking site to investigate clients."

Paris Tonkar magazine // #graffiti #streetart #urban #paristonkar #mag #art * Tarek's website : http://www.tarek-bd.fr * Paris Tonkar magazine : http://www.paristonkar.com * International Hip-Hop : http://ihh.cc/site/ * Gallery on flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarek-bd/ * Chaîne web : http://www.dailymotion.com/Paristonkar

Paris Tonkar magazine // #graffiti #streetart #urban #paristonkar #mag #art * Tarek's website : http://www.tarek-bd.fr * Paris Tonkar magazine : http://www.paristonkar.com * International Hip-Hop : http://ihh.cc/site/ * Gallery on flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarek-bd/ * Chaîne web : http://www.dailymotion.com/Paristonkar

Michael Phelps has been suspended from competition for three months by USA Swimming, the latest fallout from a photo that showed the Olympic great inhaling from a marijuana pipe.

Online hangouts like Facebook and MySpace have offered crime-solving help to detectives and become a resource for employers vetting job applicants. Now the sites are proving fruitful for prosecutors, who have used damaging Internet photos of defendants to cast doubt on their character during sentencing hearings and argue for harsher punishment.

See The World Through Ana's Eyes--What is this an ad for? I saw it last week and again today on a bus, but I still have no idea what it's advertising!

Great online image editing tool Creation on the Fly Photo-editing, logos, web templates, filters, color palettes, screen capture & more at Aviary.com

Facebook announced today that it has begun making status messages, photos and videos visible to the public at large by default instead of being visible only to a user's approved friends.

Are socially engaging art installations truly an introspective means for change or do they merely serve as attention-grabbing photo-ops? Check out this one by Sahil & Sarthak Design Co. and leave us your views…

Finding oneself in the mayhem of avant garde terminology by rustling up one's roots is part of any intellectually bent probing mindset. Check out this installation by designer Lalit Hira at the LDF 2015 and leave us your views...

MySpace takes the safety and privacy of all MySpace users very seriously and, in some situations, we ask for a salute to verify the identity of a user. A salute is a digital image of you holding a sign with MySpace.com and your Friend ID number written on the sign.

Slideshow of images from this new technology. Somewhat like the photoshop site we looked at in class, this innovation can show you a theoretically more attractive version of yourself.

The Disney curse strikes again

The following essay shows how a photograph aided and abetted a terrible miscarriage of justice. I invite readers to offer their own interpretation of the considerable amount of material contained in the footnotes.

Morphthing combines two faces into one!

Click on Portfolio, open an image from the gallery, move the mouse onto the picture.