Via Steve Rubel

I try my best to credit the source of my information, be it a link or an email address but there is a growing trend where things are read and quickly blogged with no attribution what so ever. That's scary. Not that bloggers are journalists (bloggers can be journalists and journalists can be bloggers, but not all bloggers are journalists – that's for sure), but we need establish some amount of credibility here or we will all end up being CBS. Now, that's really scary.

So, take this pledge of allegiance, nah just sign this petition that states you will credit your source. It's painless, egalitarian and definitely non-partisan.

Amy Gahran's blog Contentious is a must read for those of us in the communication business. Want to learn to write better; she has a tip or a link. Want to disseminate your work to the world via RSS or webfeeds, as she calls them? You got it. She has great, well thought out advice.

Given how much of the Internet (or internet) is splattered with blogs really about nothing substantial (Friends and Seinfeld fans quit whining), Gahran's site in comparison is absolutely rich. If you are interested please sign up for her popular weekly newsletter. I have. There is something in there for everyone. The weekly ‘grab bag' is my personal favorite.

The week of August 20, for instance, Amy's ‘grab bag' included a link to Acronym Finder, a useful tool if you are trying to figure out what UNHCR stands for and the library is closed for the day. Click on the link to find out what it stands for.

For writers, Amy had links to Elizabeth Brenner Danzinger, her favorite writing coach and author of a book on practical writing advice called Get to the Point. Thanks to Amy, I have now subscribed to a monthly intallment of writing tips, called Writamins by Ms. Danzinger. I'll share them with you just as soon as I get them in my inbox.

I am now publishing a weekly photoblog at Sepia Mutiny. It's quite likely that you will see the same images I post here over there. But don't let that stop you from checking out the fine writing you will find there by scrolling up or down.

Special thanks to Vinod and Manish for inviting me to be a part of Sepia Mutiny. It's a nice play on words and as a photographer I am naturally drawn to it.

Starting out in photojournalism? Mark Hancock, a staff photographer for the Dallas Morning News has a blog that is a good read.

Take this post about pushing and pulling film; I learned something new! And yes, I still shoot film.

The Weblog Review has reviewed TIFFINBOX. High marks on some features, while some others need a kick in the ass.

For those of you who don't know what a tiffinbox is, I'll have a more descriptive “what the heck this site is about” scpheel and yes, I'll tell you a little bit more about myself too. Perhaps I'll even post a mug-shot of your's truly (though the logo in the upper left corner of this space is a good preview).

Thoughts on the review itself are greatly appreciated.