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President Obama honored Steve Sasson, inventor of the digital camera, this Wednesday with a 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, Washington Post reports. Sasson invented the digital camera in 1975 as an engineer working for Kodak. Read more here.

If you're curious about up-and-coming young photographers, see the recently announced winners' list and winning images of the 65th College Photographer of the Year competition.

Denver Post shares photographer Edward Curtis' images of Native American Indians, chosen from the Library of Congress's Edward S. Curtis Collection, many of which have not been published. In 1906 Curtis was offered $75,000 by J.P. Morgan to document these cultures. Read more and see images here.

News Thump, a UK spoof news and satire site, offers a darkly humorous take on tightening securities on photographers: "Terrorists 'sick of being treated like photographers' "

Wired's blog Raw File announces their picks for favorite photobloggers here.

Wanna cheer up your grandma? See here how French photographer Sacha Goldberger brightened the spirits of his 91-year-old Hungarian grandmother Frederika by dressing her up in superhero costumes and taking hilarious photos (via mymodernmet).