Via Atlas Obscura

When one visits New Orleans the sense of history is palpable… for the living and the dead.

Due to the Sea Level or below nature of the Big Easy, getting buried was entirely above board –or at least above ground.

Ornate and festooned cemeteries provide a stony history of the city’s residents. Clues to what these places tell us in New Orleans and elsewhere rests, perhaps eternally rests, with the symbols chosen to embellish eternity.

Thanks to Atlas Obscura for shedding light on the symbols.

The “gold standard” today for photographic ethics is that documentary photos should be enhanced no more than what would be normally permissible in the darkroom. As this article explore, what was permissible in the darkroom at a premier agency like Magnum was, at times, extensive formulas for getting just the right print. Would this be considered excessive photo manipulation today?

Fascinating read.

In the Journosaur’s day there was one simple rule:

What the Font at MyFont.com provides use font matching service

Whoever died with the most fonts was the winner.

The world of web interconnectivity never ceases to amaze. Don’t know what font you are looking for? Simple, upload a sample and get WTF’s opinion.

I’ve tried this font finder and it works surprisingly well. And, it’s free. CLICK HERE to give What The Font at MyFonts.com a try.

Repetition is a key to knowledge. Take copyright law, please.

Via SheOwnsIt.com

In many years advising young journalists, the Journosaur could not repeat often enough that it was impermissible to gather images and content from any source without proper acknowledgment, credit and in many cases, payment.

The advent of the interwebs, with the ease in accessing content, makes it important to repeat the lesson frequently.

In most cases, journalists can use brief portions of content in the interest of providing fair comment and criticism. The temptation to access more is strong indeed.

Shelley Webb at SheOwnsIt.com provides a useful revisit to internet etiquette that will help keep content creators on the right path.

If it was up to the Journosaur, the Ampersand would be the 27th letter of the alphabet.

Via MentalFloss.com

For all of their fossilization, Journosaurs are willing to walk to the edge what is — or is not –considered proper use of language.

It could be worse.

There might have been 38 characters instead of the friendly 26 had a few more linguistic imperatives made the cut as this story in Mental Floss points out.

Via MentalFloss

In the world of words, it is apparently better to get full shrift than the dreaded short shrift.

For the off kilter folks who appreciate the idiosyncrasies of the English language, this author has compiled a list of a dozen words that live on only because they have been embedded in idioms.

Fossilized langauge and Journosaurs go step in step.

Brendan McGinley via Twitter @TechnicallyRon

In the Journosaur’s day, one would have to had scoured the pages of Mad and Cracked Magazines to find such an epic take on the formula that molds other media. In this case a 2010 formulation for the prototypical women’s magazine spring forward from the brain of Brendan McGinley. Take a look. Like most parodies, this one rocks because it is filled to the brim with truth.

Via PetaPixel

For a photographer, there is no shortcut to shooting. The more you shoot, the better the end result.

Developing an eye for the visual, though, is never a destination but rather a process. This posting at PetaPixel speaks of the process.