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Media News - Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Life magazine photo collection goes online

One of the biggest photo collections in the world that ranges from the 1880s through to the seminal moments of the 20th century and on into the present day was made available to the public online Tuesday. The bulk of the archive is from Life magazine, the premier platform for photojournalists in the 20th century. About 10m images will eventually be available, from Marilyn Monroe and JFK to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. About 97 percent of the pictures have never been seen before. Google announced Tuesday it had done a deal with Life to put their pictures online. Also available is work from other archives, much of it collected by the former Time publisher Henry Luce. About 20 percent of the collection went online Tuesday. Dawn Bridges, a spokeswoman for TimeInc, said that the archives in their entirety would be available in the first quarter of next year. She said it would not just be historical. Life magazine is defunct but lives on on the internet as Life.com. Millions of images have been scanned and made available on Google Image Search. (The Guardian)

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NASA tests “deep space Internet”

The US space agency NASA said it successfuly conducted a first test of a deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. The US space agency said Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA spacecraft some 20 million miles (32.4 million kilometers) from Earth. NASA said the software protocol, which must be able to withstand delays, disruptions and disconnections in space, was designed in partnership with Vint Cerf, a vice president at Internet search giant Google. DTN sends information using a method that differs from the normal Internet's Transmission-Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP, communication suite, which Cerf co-designed, NASA said. Unlike TCP/IP, DTN does not assume a continuous end-to-end connection, NASA said, noting that glitches can happen when a spacecraft moves behind a planet, or when solar storms and long communication delays occur. It said the delay, for example, in sending or receiving data from Mars takes between three-and-a-half minutes and 20 minutes at the speed of light. NASA said that if a destination path cannot be found, data packets are not discarded but kept by each network node until it can communicate safely with another node. Eventually, it said, the information is delivered to the end user. NASA said a test of DTN software loaded on board the International Space Station would begin next summer. It said an "Interplanetary Internet" could enable many new types of space missions including complex flights involving multiple spacecraft and ensure reliable communications for astronauts on the the moon. (AFP)

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Grenades explode outside Mexican daily’s offices

A Mexican newspaper's offices have been damaged by two grenades in the violence-plagued city of Culiacan in northwestern Mexico. The director of El Debate de Culiacan says his newspaper won't be deterred from coverage of drug cartels because of the pre-dawn attack Monday. Jose Isabel Ramos says no one was injured in the explosion. Culiacan is the capital of Sinaloa, a state that has given rise to several major trafficking groups. State security secretary Josefina Garcia has offered to increase security around the newspaper's office. Police are searching for the assailants. Mexico has become one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists, and many newspapers have downplayed coverage of drug gangs. (AP)

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Foreign reporters’ group fights Israeli prohibition on entering Gaza

An association representing international news organizations is campaigning for an end to an unusual Israeli policy barring foreign reporters from entering Gaza that has lasted for almost two weeks. The local Foreign Press Association, which represents reporters working for foreign news companies in Israel and the Palestinian territories, asked presidents of major news organizations on Tuesday to sign a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel protesting the policy. The association said it was also enlisting the help of a number of foreign governments and was consulting with lawyers regarding possible legal action. Israel has almost sealed the crossing points along its border with Gaza since a five-month cease-fire with Hamas, which controls the strip, began to unravel on Nov. 4. At least 15 Palestinian militants have been killed in clashes with Israeli forces since, and about 140 rockets and mortar shells have been fired from Gaza into southern Israel, the Israeli military said. Although Israel has often closed border crossings and halted deliveries of goods and fuel to Gaza in response to rocket fire, foreign journalists have usually been allowed to cross to report. This time, all movement in and out of Gaza is being halted, except for essential humanitarian cases, said Shlomo Dror, a spokesman for the Israeli Defense Ministry. (New York Times)

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US ‘cyber-bullying’ case begins

Initial jury selection has begun in the trial of a Missouri woman alleged to have used a fake MySpace profile to bully a girl who later killed herself. Lori Drew, 49, allegedly posed as a boy on the website to befriend Megan Meier, 13, who hanged herself after the "boy" broke off the virtual relationship. Ms Drew denies charges of conspiracy and accessing protected computers without authorisation. The trial is being seen as a landmark case concerning internet law. Megan, a neighbour of Ms Drew in St Louis and a former friend of her daughter, took her own life in October 2006. It is alleged that she killed herself after receiving several cruel messages from a fictitious 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans, including one saying the world would be better off without her. Prosecutors say Ms Drew and several others created the boy on MySpace, the social networking website, after Megan Meier fell out with her daughter. Ms Drew is being charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act - usually used against computer hackers, as prosecutors were unable to find any existing laws within the state of Missouri under which she could be tried. The trial has been acknowledged as the first time the federal statute on accessing protected computers has been used in a social networking case. (BBC News)

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Hulu eyeing UK, France, Germany and Japan

Hulu, the video website owned by News Corp and NBC Universal, hopes to expand internationally and is interested in Britain, France, Germany and Japan, an executive linked with the service said on Monday. Peter Smith, President of NBC Universal International, told a European Media Leaders Summit that his firm would love to roll out the online video joint venture further but that there were no concrete plans to announce yet. He said they were interested in Britain, France, Germany and Japan because online video was already popular and growing strongly in those countries. Hulu shows free episodes of current shows as well as past hits and has shown early signs of success in a market dominated by Google Inc's YouTube. Smith told the conference that advertising revenues on Hulu had not been affected by the economic downturn. (Reuters)

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