[Air-l] September 11 & The Web

[jeremy hunsinger]

just found this related bit at 
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/01/18/brewster.html 
 which may be helpful

*Kahle:* We use as much open source software as we can; we make as much 
of our software as we can open because we're a library. The idea is to 
help people make sense of the Net and we leverage all the open tools. 
Alexa put up a television archive called tvarchive.org 
<http://tvnews3.televisionarchive.org/tvarchive/html/> , which is 
televison news from around the world from Sept. 11 to Sept. 18. Twenty 
channels in Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Iraqi. Iraqi television is 
really interesting. So in three weeks, Alexa took all these recordings 
from tape, massaged them, put them online, and converted them into 
several different formats. The only way to do this is to cross-cluster 
hundreds of commodity Linux boxes and use freeware tools, all of which 
barely work.

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