Prof. Sreenath Sreenivasan is on the road with workshops in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles about blogging. If you are a journalist, check out Sreenivasan's blog tailor-made for you

Dr. Atul Gawande wins a MacArthur Foundation genius grant. That's $500,000 “with no strings attached.” Nice.

Nirali magazine is back. Where did it go?

The New York Times has an interesting article about the evolution of tea bags for the masses.

Artists – want to work and live in NY city? AsylumNYC may be your ticket. You have to be a non-US citizen, though.

Beginner's guide from a seasoned CSS-designer: Bookmark it!

The digital rangefinder Leica M8 is around the corner, or so says Mike Johnston of The Online Photographer fame

Picture Correct: news, tips and camera reviews for digital photographers

Shrink Pictures: Yet another way to, well, shrink large pictures so that you don't inflict bloated email inboxes on unsuspecting friends and relatives [via Steve Rubel's Micro Persuasion]

Chris Jordan redefines the word “portrait” in his new book, In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss From An Unnatural Disaster

S. Mitra Kalita of Suburban Sahibs fame [and a Washington Post reporter] tips us off to internships at her paper. Deadline is November 1. You have to be in school to apply.

Split Portraits – is this the next big trend in photography? Sean Kernan, I remember, did this about ten years ago and did it really well.

Nominate this blog for Best of the Blogs [BOBS]

Elements of Style for Designers

Some del.icio.us Adobe links

TextExpander and RapidWeaver are programs I am contemplating using [both Mac programs]

In a clutch, Congressman Bobby Jindal of Louisiana helps deliver his third baby. Does this feat alone qualify him to run for President?

Carolyn E. Wright is the PhotoAttorney. Read the blog. Protect yourself in myriad ways.

Photoshop Online Video Podcast, tips and techniques by Jan Kabili who ran theunofficialphotoshopweblog

Travel Advice For Photographers

Devi Prakashan is selling a Raja Ravi Varma book on Lulu

Daljit Dhaliwal leads Wide Angle and two documentaries: 1-800-INDIA and Back To School. Check them out on PBS.

Check out SAJAForum.org. I am thrilled to be included as an Editor, though the more accurate title should be Producer.

onDeadline, USA Today's blog is now a must-read for me

Nikon has announced the D80, a 10.2 megapixel camera

JPG Magazine has a deal you should check out

A good read for photographers who once rolled their sleeves up and got into the thick of things in the darkroom: What's that smell?

Photograph Superman [via Melissa Lyttle]

“The most controversial tool in Photoshop that we use is the cloning tool.” – Reuters' Gary Hershorn, News Pictures Editor for North America, does some explaining about the recent debacle involving a Lebanese freelance photojournalist and Photoshop

PhotographyBLOG tips us off to an Annie Leibovitz retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum from October 20, 2006 through January 21, 2007. Gotta go! Gotta go!

Photographer Jill Greenberg is in a heap of trouble for swiping candy from kids and making them cry [all in the name of Art and a dose of reality, she says]

Jan Kabili of the unofficial photoshop weblog has an interesting post about High Dynamic Range photography and links to a recent New York Times article