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These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America's rural and small town populations.

Video blog about photography and photoshop. You can follow Aaron and Avery at http://twitter.com/#!/AaronandAvery

Compfight is an image search engine tailored to efficiently locate images for blogs, comps, inspiration, and research. 

Photoshop has tons of potential for improving photos in one way or another. No matter how much experience you have with Photoshop there is probably more that you can learn in these areas. This is a categorized collection of tutorials that will show you some new tricks for photo touch-ups.

Several months ago, I read an article on WebDesigner Depot entitled "The Difference Between Art and Design". It was a fascinating piece that attempted to establish a clear distinction between these two very closely related concepts. Over the past few months, the article has really stuck with me and caused me to do a lot of thinking. I would like to expand on some of those thoughts here.

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If you're a digital storyteller or podcaster, you know the value of having sound clips in the middle of your creation.

Here's the link again to the shared Google Doc of resources for any Comm Tech teachers to view and add to: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rRXzqrIEIyNDiOFxqklmNxESVg814-OqL9c85UVFoSI/edit

It seems as though teens are becoming conditioned to be "on call" through texting with cell phones. Some youth say they feel social pressure to answer each other's text messages regardless of the time of day, and that's causing problems at home and at school. Teachers are concerned about the impact of interruptions on learning, and school administrators are responding with policies on cell phone-use in schools. But how can the education system guide teens through confronting compulsion if students are conditioned to be "on-call"? Can kids find the self-control to plan time with their cell phones efficiently?

Unfortunate story about flickr deleting a photo because of a false copyright claim. According to the requirements in the DMCA, they had no choice. (this could happen to anyone)