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It seems that the evolution of new media is leaning towards video.

With the availability of cheaper and cheaper bandwidth, internet video has become a major way to transmit information. And of course, it includes photography.

Introducing "On the Air"

With this in mind, I’ve created a channel where you can watch some of the videos I’ve found of interest for photographers. From beginners to more experienced artists, I believe you’ll find something there for you.

All you have to do is go to On the Air (link on the header). In there you’ll find an embedded display (powered by Mogulus) that is continuously showing these videos. If you want to have more selectivity, click on On Demand" and you’ll have access to the video list currently available.

So far, none of the videos on the list was created by me, but some are "in the making" and I’ll probably release them in the next weeks.

I’ll also be expanding this list as more and more interesting videos start to show up.

For now, sit back, grab a cup of coffee, relax, and enjoy photography.

Today this blog has hit another milestone but unfortunately nothing that makes me cheerful: the 50,000 mark of spam caught by Askimet.

I know that spammers see in blogs one of their main targets to achieve whatever it is they want to achieve, but is comment spamming the right way? Well, it seems that it is working or I would not see such waves of spam coming my way.

Fortunately Askimet catches most of it (with some still evading it and needing to be manually moderated).

What worries me the most is how many valid comments from my readers may have been caught also and forever banished to the internet waste dump. Yes, I could manually go through each and every one of them, but going through 100 to 200 daily comments trying to convince me that I need to see that latest porno or that a specific pill is exactly what I need to enlarge some parts of my body is not something that I look forward to.

If you have a blog, how bad is it for you? Are you getting this amount of daily garbage or was I singled out for comment torture?

How do you deal with comment spam on your blog?

The layout of a blog is perceived as the personal brand not only of the blog but of the blogger.

In the beginning…

In the beginning, and my very first attempt at serious blogging, this blog was dedicated to more “personal discharges” than photography, although already inserted on my photography-related site (see the TLD for what I’m talking about) - and thus the name.

With time I saw myself writing more and more about photography than anything else and I decided to dedicate it exclusively to photography, with a focus on digital photography, and although the name might not make much sense, it stuck, and I think if for nothing else, it distinguishes it from the crowd.

On the visual side, the template this blog is using still came from those very early days, almost since I made it live (there was another but for a very shot period of time). It took me ages to adapt the original theme and customize it to what I needed.

The hunt restarts…

With growth, I’m starting to have the feeling that the current theme, although I still like it, is not enough to support the blog anymore. I need something that interacts more with the readers while, at the same time, un-clutters it and makes it more reader-friendly.

So, the hunt begins again…

I’m looking for a new theme. This time though, supported by a much more extensive knowledge of CSS and how a Content Management System like Wordpress works, I hope to find one and customize it in a way that stays for a longer period of time.

So, this is where I need your help.

How would you like this site to look like? What are the main things that you think a blog dedicated to photography should have? A one sidebar layout or two? Bigger header? Bigger footer?

Tell me what you think. Help me in this process so that you can also enjoy it more. Or, is it good the way it is?

Share your thoughts on the comments bellow. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

For my feed readers, you probably need to pop around the site to take a look at how it is right now.

Thanks again for any help you may provide.