etnobofin in the New York Times (almost)
Here’s a little Web 2.0 story. Over the past few years blogging has become an increasingly integral part of the media, for better or for worse, and one of the side-effects of this is that content produced by “normal” people (like me, I suppose) is more likely to be picked up and used by major media outlets.
ReadWriteWeb is a tech blog run out of New Zealand, rated by Technorati as one of the top 20 blogs in the world. They published a piece yesterday about Mark Zuckerberg’s pre-Harvard inspiration for Facebook. Prior to Harvard, Zuckerberg was a student at Phillip’s Exeter Academy, and the photo they chose to illustrate the piece was a photo I took last year during my short trip to New Hampshire:
Phillips Exeter Academy in the snow – March 29th, 2008
I found out about the photo’s use via Paul Spence at Genius Net, who tweeted the news overnight. (See, I told you it was a Web 2.0 story)
For extra coolness, ReadWriteWeb content is syndicated to the New York Times site, so although the New York Times version of the story doesn’t contain the photo, I still get a credit at the bottom of the article. Does this make me a citizen journalist or something ?
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I’d apply for a press card if I were you!
Excellent! It’s great that the on-line ver of the NY Times article links to the photo on Flickr, even though it doesn’t appear on the NYT page for the story. I wonder if a thumbnail or samll ver of the photo was used when the article first appeared on the NYT (online) main page. OR was used in the print edition?? Very cool in any event. Congrats!