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Painting and Film Photography for Illustration Are Both Dead.
What's Next?
By Terry Calhoun
I think we all knew the writing on the wall was there for
traditional photography when eight megapixels packaged with
an SLR camera body with interchangeable lenses became available
at reasonable prices. And I don't think for a moment that the
changes we're going to see in digital photography are even
slowing down. It won't be long now until everything, even
the buttons in our clothing have high-quality cameras in them.
But, illustration by hand--whatever medium, pastels, oils,
pencil--is now also dead. How do we know? We know because
National Geographic went digital in its latest issue about
sea monsters. That's right, the gold standard in print
publishing is now digital for illustration. If you've seen
the latest National Geo issue, you know what I mean.
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IT NEWS
Windows PCs Face ‘Huge’ Virus Threat
Yikes, this new one can create security risks even if the user d'esn't
click on an attachment; infection could result just from viewing a
website with an infected image on it! (Financial Times)
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Princeton Plans to Revolutionize Undergraduate Education
One thing the new interdiscipliinary centers will all share is a core of
information technology infrastructure and research. (The Princeton Packet)
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Glitch Confuses Whitworth College Students Spending Accounts
Shortly after the semester began, many Whitworth College (WA)
students on-campus spending accounts were accidentally
'restored' to their initial amounts. Now the accounts are
being straightened out and students are finding they have
less money than they thought. (The Whitworthian)
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RESOURCES
Google Ghosts of Christmas Past
Bob Roseth, director of News and Information at the
University of Washington, was more than a little surprised
when the first item in his recent Google News alert was
from "a release my office had issued back in 1999. A long
list of other "news" items followed, from those golden days
of yesteryear, 1997 through 2003. Even IT Trends was haunted
by the Ghost of Google Past when we ran an award story last
month for an honor the University of Washington received in
2000. Mea culpa!
Read Roseth's humorous account of how this time warp happened
and what he suggests campus IT and news directors do about it.
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DEALS, CONTRACTS, AWARDS
UC Santa Cruz Involved in Intense Upgrading of Wireless Network
The core of the net is occasionally maxxing out on its capacity. Small
changes are being made now to CruzNet, but funding is coming along for
larger upgrades next summer. (UC Santa Cruz Currents)
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NEW PRODUCTS
The Firefox Hacks You Must Have
Apprently the new Firefox version has some pretty cool extensions
available. Do these names interest you: BugMeNot, DownThemAll,
SessionSaver? (Wired)
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