Google has impressed us all so much that our first inkling to find information about anything or anybody is to “google” it or them. I am not entirely sure that's proper use of a trademarked brand name (hey, my mother still says – “Go, xerox copy the passport,” believing that the word Xerox equals everything involving the act of photocopying).

Today I came across Google Guide: Interactive Tutorial Making Search Even Easier.

“Although this tutorial is for people new to Google, it contains information of interest to those who have experience with Google or another search engine. Unless you're familiar with all of Google's features, you'll learn something by taking this tutorial.”

The tutorial and web site by Nancy Blachman is an acceptable ruse to market a book she co-authored with Google engineers Fritz Schneider and Eric Fredricksen called How to do Everything with Google.

If you are at all curious how sports photographers and other photojournalists get their work to press and into your hands so quickly, read this marketing plug from Apple.

Tom Wagner shoots all the Tampa Bay Buccaneers football games and uses a digital workflow that allows him to deliver 3,000 images per game to his various clients. One thing is for certain if it weren't for digital none of this would be possible. And using a Macintosh sweetens the experience even more. The article mentions a digital asset management tool called iViewMediaPro. I have ordered a copy. I'll post my review very soon.

Professor Rich Beckman at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill just emailed me to say that the 2004 Multimedia Boot Camp is on. If you are interested in Flash, ActionScripting, Video for the web and of course audio production, this is where you can get your feet wet.

The April workshop has quite a line-up of who's who in multi-media: Andrew Locke, Director of Multimedia at MSNBC.com, Tom Kennedy of WashingtonPost.com, Paige West from the Poynter Institute, audio maven J. Carl Ganter and multimedia guru Joe Weiss of The Herald Sun.

The $1,200 fee doesn't include jumping jacks or push-ups. Those are extra. And like most dinners during the workshop, you are on your own.

Luc Delahye‘s photojournalism has always had an epic quality about it.

“At the heart of the discussion was the financial and artistic crisis that photojournalism is currently going through.”

He shoots for Magnum, but from this Peter Lennon interview in The Guardian, I get the sense he really is out there dodging bullets and making images for himself.

Ever see those VW buses that had large maps of the US sketched on them? Some of the states were colored blue and others red. While it wasn't particularly clear to me what each color denoted, I came to understand and envy the occupants of that 60's relic for having seen a little more of the country than I had. Boy, the stories they could tell!

Well, twenty years later and a little better traveled than I was when I came to the US in 1983, I have notched up quite a roster of my own. Check out the map below. The states in RED indicate where these feet of mine have taken me so far. I have five more states to go!

The map was created using a tool developed by World66: The Travel Guide Your Write. You can make a map of your travels in the US or the world. And of course, if you do find yourself on the road and wish to express yourself, World66 will be happy to publish your writing {under the creative commons license}.

Richard and Douwe Osinga, the site's brain-children say this: “…we think that travelers are the most reliable source of information for other travelers.” Jack Kerouac would be sure proud of ya'll.