ZDNet’s David Berlind has a whole series of excellent posts inspired by what he thought about during the web-cred conference. Here, here, here, here. Plus a few photos on flickr.
He points to one shortcoming (of many, no doubt):
“In hindsight, I realized that the conference may not have spent a sufficient amount of time discussing photojournalism. Not only are the consumer tools for creating great imagery in place, so too are the tools (eg: Photoshop) for sullying photojournalism’s credibility. Nevertheless, consumer photojournalists’ access to both the tools and the channel might present an even bigger threat to big media than the blogosphere in its very text-driven state ever will. Ironically, in serving as a channel for that consumer generated content today, Big Media is legitimizing the credibility of its main competition tomorrow.”
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