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It has not been a good seven days for al-Jazeera. The Arab satellite TV network, which had its credentials revoked at the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ last week after airing controversial footage of American POWs, has become a target for pro-America hackers. The site's most recent attack came Thursday, when its news content was replaced by a stars-and-stripes patterned “Let Freedom Ring” logo. The attack knocked both the main site and the English-language site, which debuted last Monday, offline for 24 hours. Those who tried to log on saw an American flag and the message “Hacked by Patriot, Freedom Cyber Force Militia.” Other attacks included a message saying "page under construction" and “This page has been taken over by Simoon Bhuiyan.” A denial of service attack was launched last Monday against the English site. Meaningless data bombarded the site to try to knock legitimate traffic offline. Al-Jazeera officials have begun searching for a new host for the English site, as the U.S. DataPipe said it would only host until the end of the month.
More 'Bachelor' goodies for AOL subscribers
Can’t get enough of “The Bachelor’s” hot tub scenes and gold-digging girls? Find even more of it on America Online. The company has introduced a “Bachelor” Morning After feature for AOL Television. Footage will include AOL-exclusive interviews with the female contestants every Thursday morning after Wednesday’s 9 p.m. show. The interviews will be taped after the rose ceremony, in which bachelorettes are chosen to move to the next round. The Morning After will be available only to AOL dial-up and broadband subscribers. It will be three to five minutes long and will run through the May 20 season finale.
Salon stays alive with new round of financing
A new round of financing has added $800,000 to Salon.com's coffers, allowing the troubled online magazine to remain in business. Salon investors Bill Hambrecht and John Warnock led the fund-raising efforts and have helped the site raise $2.1 million since last summer. The company has increased paid subscriptions from 47,000 at the end of last year to 60,000, thanks to a major online push. Last month, in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Salon reported that without additional infusions of capital it was at risk of not meeting its obligations but that it was confident it would be able to raise the capital necessary to take it to profitability. Salon also said last week that 14 advertisers have signed up for the site’s so-called day pass Intercept advertising. The pass, in use since late January, allows non-subscribers to read stories without paying by watching an advertisement.
California combats medical errors via internet
The increasing cost of medical malpractice insurance has received lots of attention the past few months. A new internet-based system being implemented at the University of California aims to cut down on malpractice suits by reducing human error. The project is the first in the U.S. to link academic medical centers via the same internet-based system. The system will monitor errors in a way that may help establish patterns of drug or dosage mistakes. Some health care providers have begun implementing tracking systems to help monitor errors. The Institute of Medicine has estimated that up to 98,000 deaths per year are caused by medical errors.
March 31, 2003© 2003 Media Life
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