Winners of the Macworld magazine subscription giveaway are Devalina and Keshav.

Congratulations and thanks for playing!

Foto Fiction: “is an interactive feature where a set of photographs with an underlying theme is given a story, one image at a time.”

Do captions matter? Mike Johnston of The Online Photographer certainly thinks so. I concur. So photographers, for 2006 please make it your resolution to learn to write better.

Thanks to fotolia for this short list of “Best of 2005” photo galleries: Reuters, The Washington Post, Time and MSNBC.com. Robert Galbraith's site has this additional gallery from The New York Times to check out as well.

Prianga and Eranga Pieris, from Sri Lanka sing about the sea. [Thanks to StoryCorps for that link]

Disaster Remembrance Week

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Much of the press here in the US is more inclined to focus on the relief efforts of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, but a gentle reminder – today is the one-year anniversary of the tsunami disaster to strike South and South East Asia.

The South Asian Journalists Association Reporting Fellowships have made it possible for journalists to go back to areas in South and South East Asia, to continue covering the stories from those regions well after the major networks have left the scene.

“The SAJA Reporting Fellowships are aimed at promoting a rare element in 24/7-news-cycle journalism, namely, in-depth and follow-up reporting on major events relating to South Asia or South Asians, long after the breaking-news crews have moved on. For the inaugural year, 2005, SAJA provided three projects a total of $10,000 to do stories about the tsunami aftermath that would not otherwise get covered. The money was raised thanks to the efforts of SAJA members and well-wishers around the country.”

The first series of stories is by veteran journalist Ken Moritsugu:
Tsunami aid distributed unevenly between India's fishing and farming villages and A Rush to Rebuild Leads to Wasted Effort.

Find below an audio slideshow of Moritsugu's findings. Please press on the play button on the lower left to start the show. Remember to also turn your speakers up so that you can hear Mortisugu's words.

As the year ends, I urge you to consider donating to this worthwhile effort. For more information, please email John Laxmi, SAJA's Treasurer at johnlaxmisaja[at]gmail.com.

It's the holiday season and hey I am all about giving ya'll freebies whenever I can. So here is one for the Macintosh maven among you.

I have TWO free subscription offers to Macworld to give away by December 31st.

Email me at tiffinbox [at] pipalproductions [dot] com with your name, address and telephone number. You better be legit because I will call you before I commit your subscriptions.

The second and sixth email wins (2 and 6, get it?)

Sepia Mutiny links to an article by Lavina Melwani about the number of desis who work the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority [answer: 2,500]. Of course, many of them are now on strike.

Adobe Desis. ArZan beat me to it, but the growing list of desis working on Adobe's cash cows Photoshop and ImageReady are astounding

Carl Zeiss lenses that will work on Nikon F-mounts? That's the rumor. This could be big, if it is real.

Bending Light magazine: Issue 1, is out and it looks gorgeous

Cartoonster. If you ever wanted a crash course on creating your own cartoon this is it.

QuickrFlickr: If you ever wanted to post multiple images from your Flickr account, this online service now makes it possible. I think it is awesome.

Nominations for the 2005 Indibloggies have commenced. If you think this site is worth its salt, I would appreciate a nomination. Thanks in advance.