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2012: The Year of Personalized Gifts?

Recently, we asked Lab 42, a market research firm, to survey 1,000 social media users about their gift-giving plans for this holiday season. Here’s what they found out: And that’s not all we learned from this survey. First of all, as you probably already know, shopping for presents isn’t always particularly easy, and it gets [...]

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Books on the Big Screen

Many times, seeing the movie adaptation of a much-loved book can be disappointing. Important elements are left out or erroneously altered. The actors don’t portray the characters the way you saw them in your head. But, occasionally, it’s just a fun way to fall back in love with the stories and characters all over again. [...]

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Seven Photojournalism Tips from a Reuters Photographer

Just had to share this video from Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj. You may not be covering armed conflicts in far-flung locations, but these seven tips for a photojournalism turn out to be pretty good advice for photographers of all stripes. 7 Photojournalism Tips from Thomson Reuters Foundation on Vimeo. Speaking of photojournalism, we’re lucky to [...]

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#enjoythejourney: A Cool Animated Instagram Project

Today’s awesome video find is from a project called #enjoythejourney. Instagramer @ryanchesney is organizing a crowd-sourced Instagram project that invites Instagramers to submit tagged photos that will be animated together into a video. It’s truly a collective journey, incorporating disparate photos into a visual narrative. And the work they’ve done so far is incredibly cool. Here’s [...]

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