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Thesoftware Construction Company's (SWCC) Photoshop Plug-in Best Power's UPS US Robotics's modems Cisco Systems'wuters Bay Networks'hubs Telos Systems'interfaces Telex headsets Spider Island Software's Diagram by Nigel Telefinder BBS Holmes 24 HOURS IN CYBERSPACE: HOW IT WORKS / 1 CREATE COLLECT AND EDIT PUBLISH Today, February 8th, 100 At Mission Control in San The work is published at the professional photographers Francisco, teams of judges, 24 Hours in Cyberspace web and thousands of others editors, designers and site and is"mirrored"around worldwide are shooting technicians are sifting through the world, photos and transmitting incoming pictures and audio them to San Francisco. clips, and are building a World To read more about the projec Wide Web site in real time. First load Adobe Acrobat, then return to this page to continue. - ~~ -- - PUBL I II_ ' " i tti ,I\,+htl t4-$ 24 HOURS IN CYBERSPACE: HOW IT WORKS Today, February 8th, 100 professional photographers and thousands of others worldwide are shooting photos and transmitting them to Mission Control in San Francisco.

Project Photographers using digital and normal cameras, shoot photos worldwide. Kodak Digital Science Camera, rx Kodak Film and Processing Photographers' Students Amateurs The Military A Assistants around the world shoot photos write and photograph utilizesan all-digital 1 either download the digital 1 and create their own Web pages. their own stories- network to shoot photos in images directly into a These are sent via the to anything from a text-only the field and transmit notebook computer,or Mission Control forjudging. message to a complete them back to Mission scan and digitize color Adobe Page Mill, Adobe Photoshop, Web page-and send Control in real-time. negatives first. Adobe Acrobat,Adobe Illustrator, them to the 24 Hours in Together with the Photographer Kodak Digital Science Camera, Cyberspace Web site. they select the best ones, Netscape Navigator, add captions, and upload Netscape Server I the images to Mission Control. High-speed telecommunica- r tions link to Mission Control NECVersa NotebookComputer, MFS Communications' Adobe Photoshon. advanced ATM fiber network Polaroid sprints;an Scanner, Kodak Photo Imaging Workstation, Audio Interviewer Software Construction Company PIK Plug In, in Mission Control Spider Island SoftwareTelefinder BBS debriefs the Project Photographers by phone. Telex headse R - m HMB NEC Adobe fuETSChPE At Mission Control in San Francisco, teams of technicians and judges are sifting through incoming pictures and audio clips, before sending them on to the editing process. +-..-.. lncoming photos The Network lllustra Database *. and stories 60 Ultra Sparc Workstations and Servers,25 NEC Power- scans incoming photos and stories,checks that they Mate systems with NEC Multisync monitors,~iscoRouter, comply with Project rulesabout size and number,cracks R,,, LI,,+~A,AVL~~$ubs,US Robotics modems,Best Power UPS open e-mail and places contents in the database,sends ,; thankyou(orreject)notetosenders. .------'

System Administrators (4) monitor,control and keep the overall network secure.

Traffic Team (4) monitors the technical quality of incoming photos and stories; provides technical support to Project Photo- graphers and Assistants in the field. lncoming Illustra, Netscape Navigator audio Audio Team (2) collects, processes and edits audio interviews in real-time,and places the rate the incoming student and Audio finished clips in thelllustra database. amateur stories,and categorize Power Computing workstations, Sonic them into the Project's themes. Solutions Digital Audio software and MediaNet Illustra,Netscape Navigator network,Telos Systems phone interfaces

NETSCAPE ILLUSTRA - - rn ' ' 24 HOURS IN CYBERSPACE: HOW IT WORKS At Mission Control, teams of editors, designers and technicians build the web pages that are the heart of the project-Thereare three stages for each page:

Six teams,each with a Photo Editor, Four cross-functional teams view and rank the stories within Text Editor and Adobe Photoshop a theme.They then fill in a pre-designed temTlaM Technician review and edit a story's Adobe Photoshop, Illustra, Netscape Navigator, Netobjects images, text and audio.The team creates pull quotes,and then fills in a IIateIdesigned by Clement Mok designs.The required HTML code is automatically generated by the push of a button. Adobe Photoshop, lllustra, The Editor-in-Chief, Executive Photo#!fl Editor and Website Netscape Navigator, Netobjects Designer work on the site's home page to ensure that the best stories of the moment are highlighted. Adobe Photoshop, lllustra, Netscape Navigator, NetObjects

Technical Support Editorial Support Four experts from lllustra and NetObjects, Three senior editors provide overall and five HTML programmers answer questions direction and two proofreaders and "tweak pages where necessary. catch spelling errors. m L\' 9 r NEC S ~~biec~~i 1 Adobe ~ETSCAPE ILLUSTRA I WE B PAC E T E MPLAT E 24 HOURS IN CYBERSPACE: HOW IT WORKS 14.1 litc d Designers at Mi !ct fro 3 set c )redesignedtemplates& AUTOMAT NetObjects and lllustra ente Navigation buttons:links to site map, th soonqorr how the oroiect works, auest Story Title how to submit stories' Map shows location of story This is the subtitle! A - * w-- Previous and next links 4 ,'/ +Initial capital letter ,)II;~I - 'I,! ;b:j! hisisthestoq {kg!! 1~1\.+,,' There can be [JI,,~%I up to thee block Photos:up to 5 separate images per page of text lke this 0; the page. It can also include an audio caption. AUDIQ*~))) I I I *I This is- the caption. Captions are enrered bythe photographer inbii?lp$? (Photo by: photographer the field,automatically pulled up by lllustra,, J:' and then edited using the NetObjects tool wt qwte 'This is a quote from the story? I -- Photo creditus to photographer biography I I There are @& within the stories. And there are -links to other sites.

4' H NEC SILLCISTuA ~mbieeti .* Adobe NETSCAPE 24 HOURS IN CYBERSPACE: HOW IT WORKS The work is published at the 24 Hours in Cyberspace web site and is"mirrored"around the world. -1 -1 Server with Sun RAID I Storage MAE West MAE East The world's :A large lnternet "hub" largest Internet ! in Washinaton,DC, "hub, operated by I operated gy MFS MFS Communications. '3 ~ommunications. InternetMCl provides . peering and address 1 I Sun Netra space for 24 Hours .I *8.s..~1.# '0 in Cyberspace 00 "Mirror" sites at LF at MAE West ..** ..** **. Internet 19% and MAE East. 9' World Expo, MCI, BBN Planet, andsun Microsystems Around ;he world, System Administrators (4) mirror sites are monitor, control and keep the overall connected with very network secure.They also monitor the telecommunications and mirroring process.

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