Notes on a photo, odd news, and thin slices

Talk loudly into the microphones, senior innovation editor Carla Savalli said, because editor Steve Smith was tuning in via webcast. In other news:

A dead person appears in an Associated Press photo on page A8 to go with today’s cyclone coverage from the newswire , a small photo but the body is visible. S-R has some ethical concerns about using photos that include dead persons, but photo director Larry Reisnouer said it’s a reality of what happened - “There is a lot of gruesome stuff going on over there.” Editors also note that the photo was published small on an inside page. It was also in black and white.

Odd news

A special-effects entrepreneur from Alabama has come up with a way to fill the sky with foamy clouds as big as 4 feet across and shaped like corporate logos – Flogos, as he calls them.

Francisco Guerra, who’s also a former magician, developed a machine that produces tiny bubbles filled with air and a little helium. It forms the foam into shapes and pumps them into the sky. Read the rest of this story