[CIMC-work] Fw: [IMC-Process] reminder: proposal: Topic IMCs

[Chris Kaihatsu]

Don, all,

You bring up a crucial point about IMC volunteer energy -- willing,
constructive collaborators should generally not be discouraged from their
self-motivated efforts.


> However, there already exist websites devoted to specific topics (voting,
> environment, etc.).


I agree -- it seems that much topic-specific news research/compiling could
be done with Google searches or by subscribing to the appropriate (non-IMC)
listserves (or newsisfree.com).


> However, there already exist websites devoted to specific topics (voting,
> environment, etc.).  What would distinguish an IMC "biotech" site from a
> similar effort outside IMC?  Would it be the "news" aspect of IMC?  Would
> the IMC site provide links to 'all' other related efforts? ...
> The proposed "combining ongoing coverage, background information with
> actions and global politics at summits and other events" leaves that
> unclear.


I take "ongoing coverage" to mean already-posted, IMC-created news. But yes,
the wording is vague as to sourcing.


Chris




----- Original Message -----
From: "donald goldhamer" <dhgo at midway.uchicago.edu>
To: "Chris Kaihatsu" <ckaihatsu at myrealbox.com>
Cc: <imc-chicago-working at indymedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [CIMC-work] Fw: [IMC-Process] reminder: proposal: Topic IMCs


> CIMC,
>
> I think that there is value in several varieties of IMC
collections/sites --
> geographic, event-specific, media-specific, and topic-specific.  An
> effective global catagorization/search mechanism could fill one part of
> this benefit, but IMC is a volunteer effort and the enthusiasms of each
> volunteer is the driving force for IMC's energy.
>
> I belive that topic-specific efforts would involve more such volunteer
> effort, by some who have chosen to focus their efforts on a specific
> topic.  If so, and if energy is not DIVERTED from the local IMC efforts
> (i.e. the site is run by 'new' volunteers) then I'd agree to the proposal.
>
> However, there already exist websites devoted to specific topics (voting,
> environment, etc.).  What would distinguish an IMC "biotech" site from a
> similar effort outside IMC?  Would it be the "news" aspect of IMC?  Would
> the IMC site provide links to 'all' other related efforts? ...
> The proposed "combining ongoing coverage, background information with
> actions and global politics at summits and other events" leaves that
> unclear.
>
> --Don
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>
> From: "Chris Kaihatsu" <ckaihatsu at myrealbox.com>:
> >My input on this issue is that I favor specific-protest-event-based IMC
> >sites, like the one for protest coverage around the FTAA meeting in
Miami,
> >ftaaimc.org. Ongoing topic-based news feeds might be better done through
> >email and listserves -- but I'm open to further consideration.
>
> >Regardless, this proposal would require input from CIMC techs, since it
> >would require technical work for its syndication function.
>