David Pogue's article in today's New York Times promises to make it easy for us to share our images with our friends and family and even have them printed at a photo store of our choice.

Please let me know of your experiences, if any of you actually use the two services mentioned; OurPictures.com and ShareALot.com. From David's article I understand that OurPictures.com is a Window-only based program. ShareALot.com appears to be open to Windows and Macintosh platforms. It's not rocket science to figure out which one I'll be using.

Much of what separates MSNBC.com from the online pack is its innovative and aggressive use of graphics – or “art” in the news-business parlance.

The article by Jon Friedman of CBS MarketWatch.com fails to mention Brian Storm (now a vice president at Corbis Images), a key player who made it possible for MSNBC.com to achieve such high standards in the use of images and graphics. Indeed for years, it was Storm's bold initiatives that garnered the website a steady stream of well-earned awards.

Via The New York Times

This is truly excellent news. On April 19, P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art in Long Island City, Queens will likely be the first museum space to host an online radio station.

“Two years in the making and billed as the world's first art radio station, WPS1 will present original talk and music shows with contemporary writers, artists and musicians as hosts. The station will also broadcast historical audio material from a variety of sources, like the sound archives of the Museum of Modern Art, with which P.S. 1 merged in 1999.”

When you walk around with a 40-pound camera bag and two very large cameras slung around your shoulders enough people will stop you with questions like – “My camera doesn't advance the film roll anymore, what should I do?” A fair question for a guy with a lot of camera power, but my response is always a bit ambiguous. That's because there is no one universal answer to these types of questions.

You can have the camera checked for about $100 an hour. Or, you could go out and replace the batteries and restart the machine. Or, you can chuck it and buy another cheapo camera. It comes down to what your budget is.

Speaking of budget, I am in the mix now to buy a professional level digital camera. My freelance clients are demanding digital files and the conversion from film to digital on a regular basis is wearing me down a bit.

I am a huge fan of David Pogue, a technology writer at the New York Times. This morning's edition carries his article about two professional level cameras in the $1,000 range. I am eyeing the Nikon D-70 as I have been married to that company for quite some time now; lenses, flashes, gizmos galore – all Nikon. So, Canon won't do. If only the D-70 came with a vertical grip [for portraits]. Gripes and laments aside, it appears to be a wonderful camera. Thousand bucks, chump change right? It's still quite a bit of money but it will save me from dealing with film processing labs again.

I can't tell you the number of times I have been left utterly frustrated and flustered at MSN Messenger. I'll be in the middle of a conversation about photography and quite eager to share an image I made, when that darn firewall at work will block any such exchange. {Sigh!}

Mike Baker does an amazing job explaining how Flickr, a new online service works, so I won't be redundant here.

But be sure that Flickr is not limited to photography – as Baker suggests, you can form your own group and find like-minded people to chat up. So, there is the potential to be a part of an online community or a social network.

I am very excited about this new feature. If it eases my angst, I'll be happy. If I end up meeting some cool people, that would be great!