Columbia Daily Tribune photographer Parker Eshelman kicked off a project today on the Tribune’s photo blog. First Down will be a periodically updated photo blog following the Hallsville football team through their first year of a varsity schedule.

Freeze Frame is the photo blog for the 16 member photo staff of the Boston Herald. Currently they have posts from Nancy Lane who is covering the Democratic Convention in Denver.

If you haven’t yet checked out the South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s photo blog yet, do it! There’s some good stuff there. It’s been up and running since December 2007 so surf through the archives to read some behind the scenes and on assignments posts as well as a few interesting posts about historical moments from staff photographer Lou Toman.

Others seem to be picking up on the WSJ and their apparent copying of the Boston Globe’s “The Big Picture” photo blog. Which I mentioned previously. Media Nation calls out WSJ:

After Alan Taylor launched “The Big Picture” on the Boston Globe’s Boston.com site earlier this year, he told an interviewer, “I know it’s totally copy-able.”

No kidding. Last week, the Wall Street Journal — not exactly known for its photojournalism — started a photo blog that was, well, identical to what Boston.com has been doing: a blog featuring huge photos of stories in the news and off the news.

And now the WSJ seems to be void of any sort of photo blog at all. The URL http://blogs.wsj.com/thebigpicture/ returns a 404 — File not found. And after looking through the list of WSJ blogs I couldn’t find anything that would resemble a photo blog. Very curious.

UPDATE:

I finally was able to find where the WSJ photo blog is now hiding. I’m so glad they didn’t kill it, just renamed it to Photo Journal. They also posted a little explanation from Jack Van Antwerp Director of Photography:

The paper historically known for not using photos is going “big” on the web with a new, as of yesterday, photo blog called “The Big Picture.” Sound familiar? Despite the same name as another newspaper photo blog the Wall Street Journal has started off strong with a series of photos from Magnum’s Thomas Dworzak in Georgia.

In View is a photo column appearing in the Fargo (ND) Forum and produced by Ann Arbor Miller. Ann says she began the column January. It’s purpose is to focus on everyday people and places in the community.

While the design of the online component could use some design loving, it is based off of a map which I really like. I think it’s nice for a reader to see where the photo is taken. I bet it’s also handy for the photographer to notice where they are going to often and which areas of town remain neglected.

I just finished watching an inspiring talk by Jonathan Harris on ted.com.

Artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris makes online art that captures the world’s expression — and gives us a glimpse of the soul of the Internet.

I think Jonathan’s ideas on new ways of telling stories is fascinating and applicable to journalists as well as any one thinking about doing a photo column.

Check out his Web site for the the projects he’s done www.number27.org

I have to confess though I wasn’t familiar with his work, but when I did visit his site my reaction was, “Oh! I remember that. He did that!?” Especially when I saw that he created www.tenbyten.org

He most recent and notable project that I’ve seen get a lot of attention amongst the internet feeds I read was The Whale Hunt.

I particularly liked Julia Robinson’s Our Town photo column this week. Now I’m a little biased because I work with her. But I encourage you to check it out anyway.

I just found the Sacramento Bee’s photo blog thanks to Silas Crews.

The Frame continues the “big photo” format that newspapers seem to be gravitating towards.

MediaStorm launched today Scott Strazzante’s Comon Ground project.

On July 2, 2002, Jean and Harlow Cagwin watched as their home — the last remnant of their 118-acre cattle farm in Lockport, Illinois — was torn down clearing the way for a new housing development. Several years later, Ed and Amanda Grabenhofer and their four children moved into the new Willow Walk subdivision, their house just yards from where the Cagwin’s home once stood.

Common Ground introduces us to the lives touched by this land, as photographer Scott Strazzante takes us on a visual journey exploring the differences and similarities of these two families while simultaneously asking us to look at what is common among us all.