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diff --git a/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Mon/life.txt b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Mon/life.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4b7cb72 --- /dev/null +++ b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.26.07/Mon/life.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Just days after the struggling-news-sites-are-doomed meme made yet [another][5] [tired][6] [circuit][7] through the webernets, Time has [announced that it will stop printing Life magazine][4]. The "iconic photography magazine," as Reuters refers to it, has been published since 1936 with one interruption from 1972-1978. + +But print mags dying off to live again online isn't really news, it's progress (and welcome progress if you happen to be a tree slated for the wood pulper), the real news in Time's announcement is that Life's collection of 10 million images will be made available online, for free for personal use. + +Time says that more than 97 percent of the collection has never been seen by the public and includes pictures by [Alfred Eisenstaedt][1], [Margaret Bourke-White][2], [Gordon Parks][3] and other twentieth century luminaries. + +The last issue of Life will hit stands April 20th, but so far no word on when the Life image archive will be online. + +[4]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-03-26T162518Z_01_N26366501_RTRUKOC_0_US-TIME-LIFE.xml&src=rss "Time to end LIFE magazine but keep it online" +[5]: http://doc.weblogs.com/2007/03/24#howToSaveNewspapers "How to Save Newspapers" +[6]: http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/03/24/troubleAtTheChronicle.html "Trouble at the Chronicle" +[7]: http://scobleizer.com/2007/03/24/newspapers-are-dead/ "Newspapers are dead" + +[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Eisenstaedt "Alfred Eisenstaedt" +[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bourke-White "Margaret Bourke-White" +[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Parks "Gordon Parks" + |