You’ve probably seen articles like this one, entitled Why information should remain free, by Tom White. It does seem to make a lot of sense, right? After all, the web does away with all those pesky problems about distribution, ink and paper - so why should information not be free? The problem with all of this is that it ignores the fact that someone will have to pay the salaries of the people who put that information online, and curiously enough, that aspect I almost never see addressed anywhere. It’s great to talk about how information should be free - even though it feels a bit like trying to argue with a bumper sticker, doesn’t it? (updated below)
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Anders Birch sent me the link to Face the Climate, a new project he is part of: “Climate change is often described through news about scientific reports or political negotiations. However, climate change is a global phenomenon affecting us all. Consequently, Face the Climate has visited nine families in nine different countries in order to report how climate change is affecting their lives. By telling the stories of individual people, we seek to make a complex subject more tangible - thereby unfolding the large scale context of climate change.” The site features photography (incl. 360 panoramas you can control yourself), videos, articles (which you can download)… setting the benchmark for what photojournalism can look like in this year 2010.
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