San Francisco - Flickr, a popular online photo-sharing site owned by Yahoo Inc., is teaming up with Getty Images to offer shutterbugs a chance to turn their hobby into a moneymaking endeavor.

Under a partnership announced this week, Getty's editors will peruse Flickr to find pictures that may appeal to newspapers, magazines, book publishers, advertising agencies and other businesses.

Getty will then contact photographers who posted shots with sales potential to see if they're interested in licensing the pictures. Any ensuing sales will be split between Getty and the participating photographers.

The arrangement marks the latest example of how the Web is creating opportunities for people outside the traditional media industry to get paid for their photographic, writing or reporting skills. The phenomenon is sometimes known as ''citizen journalism.''

- Associated Press

Human genetics library is coming to Wikipedia

San Diego - Researchers plan to create a library of human genetics, with entries on the workings of individual genes, and make it available for anyone in Wikipedia rather than in an obscure academic format. Authors of the ''gene wiki'' say they have created 7,500 Wikipedia entries on different genes and are editing another 650 already existing entries.

The group outlined its aims this week in a paper published on the Public Library of Science's online journal, PLoS Biology. The eight authors are from the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation in San Diego, San Diego State University and Washington University in St. Louis.

Virtually anyone can edit an entry on Wikipedia, the mammoth Internet encyclopedia that was founded in 2001 and built by volunteer contributors. That could mean the gene wiki will be overwritten - with errors - by someone else who comes along.

- Associated Press

Big screen and sound without all the clutter

Mitsubishi delivers a big-screen, high-definition TV with big sound in a flat panel set that promises not to take over the entire room.

Equipped with an integrated 16-speaker sound projector just below the TV screen, the TV offers viewers a movie-like listening experience without the usual clutter of multiple speakers and wires.

The sound projector, which is preset to deliver the best sound for a typical room, can be adjusted for optimal performance in different sized settings. The 46-inch LT-46149 will cost about $3,000 while the 52-inch LT-52149 model will cost $3,400.

- Gannett News Service