Now a short one right before bedtime. As I just read this as usually very informative article by Fiete Stegers on the webpage of the German news-programme Tagesschau.de, the picture on the right has caught my attention, because it looks like just cut out of an random PR-picture. So when I searched for “Laptop in der Straßenbahn” (German for: “laptop in the tram”) at Google-picturesearch and went there on page three, I found this:
The page Teltarif offers a text from february 2005 with the title “Telekom stattet Bonner Bahn mit mobilem Hotspot aus” (“Telekom equipts the traincompany of Bonn with a mobile hotspot”). Here on the photo as well laptop, seat covers and hands may seem familiar to the interested reader. Now just for one more time using Google-Picturesearch with the optimized searchterms “telekom + surfen in der bahn” and well:
On Presseportal.de we find another very similiar article about the internet in the public transport in Bonn with the title “Das Internet fährt mit” “(“The Internet drives with [us/the train]“). And there we are even able to zoom the picture:
So this is like we have been able after 40 seconds of work and two searches at Google-Picturesearch to explain why the illustrating picture on Tagesschau.de looks like just cut out of an random PR-picture. Answer: It just has been cut out of an random PR-picture.
And the best is, that such a general photo can also be used in a general way not only for the “Klimakosten des Internet-Booms” (“Climate Expenses of the Internet-Boom”), but as well for a story about the “Bundestrojaner”.
Ok, this is a small and short one. I do not really have a clue about the news-categories at CNN, but I could have imagined that it is rather a topic for “Politics”, “World” or perhaps even “U.S.”, when the CNN chief news executive (who?) is “stepped back”, because of some critical remarks about the growing number of dead journalists in Iraq. Well, it seems that the colleagues found it rather “entertaining”.
Recently I have discovered a practical service, that offers watching a number of television channels via internet. After a short registration process at zattoo.com there are different versions of the basic-software for download supporting either Windows, Windows Vista, Mac or Linux. After installation and registration, a window showing the chosen program appears and another one displaying available channels. Sometimes the screen needs some time to build up but all in all I am really satisfied with the result. One should also not forget that this is still a beta-version and a free service moreover.
Some time ago I have seen Joost (HP, Wikipedia) which is another service for internet-television, but comparing them I indeed prefer Zattoo. It offers several news-channels live and uses a small software that can easily be run with other programs. Joost does not support live-television but on-demand-content only and also inlcludes resource-intensive extras like a chat-tool. As somebody who doesn`t own a television set I appreciate the possibility of having news from CNN, Al Jazeera or France 24 in the background during computer-work.
Overview of the channels featured in Zattoo
Channel (Genre – Language)
Comedy Central (Comedy – German)
Das Vierte (Entertainment – German)
DMAX (Entertainment – German)
DSF (Sports – German)
Entertainment Channel (Entertainment – German)
Giga (Entertainment – German)
MTV (Music – German)
Nick (Cartoons – German)
Tier TV (Special Interest – German)
TV Gusto (Special Interest – German)
VIVA (Music – German)
Al Jazeera (Information – English)
Canal 24 Horas (News – Spanish)
CNN International (News – English)
France 24 (News – English)
luxe.tv (Special Interest – English)
SF Info (News – Divers.)
sumo.tv (Entertainment – English)
Telezüri (General – Swiss German)
The Poker Channel (Special Interest – English)
TVE Internacional (General – Spanish)
As can be seen in the screen shots the main institution for TV-news in Germany, the Tagesschau, despite their enormous financial possibilities and own large excellent educated staff more and more uses Google Earth as it comes to graphical support of reports. Latest example is the coverage of the plane-crash in Sao Paulo. The screen shots are taken from the afternoon-edition (17.00 CET) which can be watched for free on the Tagesschau-webpage.
The events of Sao Paulo as well do contain a certain irony as not only the affected plane belongs to the brasilian airline TAM …
… but also the destroyed building.
So what about a little guessing game? All you have to do is to find out, which of the two pages from the newest edition of the Hamburg student magazine “Uniscene” is the cover-page 1 and which is the advertisement on page 26? Not so easy at all, isn`t it? The magazine can be downloaded as a pdf-file here on the webpage of the project.
