[Seattle-editorial] re: N30 - Feature on Seattle IMC?

Thu Nov 21 09:34:10 PST 2002

hi brady, jason, et al,

yes!!! we're definitely interested in an N30 feature, and i appreciate 
brady's thinking ahead --- let's put it up several days in advance to let 
people know what's in the works.  a week might be too early, in that other 
news is bound to happen, and other features may land on top of the pre-N30 
feature.  how about we aim for Weds, the 27th?

there are several features i'd like to see go up before then (we are really 
dragging these days -- no new feature in 9 days!), including:  various 
tragic things going on in the area of immigrants' rights, effecting many of 
our local ethnic communities;  SOA action follow-up, with link to Real 
Change story;  a feature about city-wide anti-war resolutions across the 
country (16 at least, including Seattle);  and more, i'm sure .....

in a quick search on the seattle site (searching on "N30"), several good 
links showed up for building a feature (see below).  much of this work 
created by brady himself, i'm sure -- thank you!!  and thanks too, for your 
offer to help us build/write the feature.  helping with the summary text 
will be really useful.   you can quickly scroll down thru past features on 
the site, and see that our feature format is typically quite short:  2-4 
paragraphs that allow for linking off to more detailed information on the 
newswire, or related sites (non-corporate, hopefully);  and often a set of 
accompanying links to general, or related, resources at the tail of the 
feature.

any help is appreciated.  as jason mentioned .... we're understaffed ... in 
that we're not really staffed at all.  all volunteer, all of us tied up in 
multiple projects at once.  our editorial energy ebbs and wantes, but i'm 
sure we're up for some bold, energized, activity over the next several 
weeks.   (have you seen the international call-outs for solidarity events 
on Dec 20 and 21? )

See links below ... anyone who wants to start building this feature (brady 
included) might want to mention it to the list, so that we don't have 
duplicate efforts.

in solidarity,

Susan

Economic Disruption - Affinity Group Action Ideas
http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=20129

N30 Update - A summary of planned N30 events, and, info on how to get involved.
http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=20128

Buy Nothing - Do Something Days of Action
http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=20034

Tactics discussion --- march permits, separate direct actions, no conflicts 
with police
http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=19938

N30 is Fun! - Not Your Mama's N30
http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=19965

Candlelight Vigil at Seattle Central for N30 Anniversary
http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=19908

N30 +2 Anniverary Protestor (Jeremiah Jones) May Be Cleared
http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=18967

At 08:56 AM 11/21/02, Jason Reep wrote:
>the answer is yes...but...
>
>as you mentioed we are understaffed.  Our nominal method of feature 
>creation is to assemble articles that have been posted to the newswire 
>into a coherent feature.  Sometimes this consists of many articels and 
>images (sometimes audio) and sometimes it's just one substantive article 
>combined with offsite info.  I haven't done a comprehensive survey today 
>but it seems that the bulk of postins so far about N30 are about whether 
>or not to confront the police.  Is this the story we want to feature?
>
>Brady do you have or know of any locally written articles, schedules, 
>flyers, events, critique, etc.. that can be posted?
>I know that you are probably as busy as the rest of us but, the quickest 
>and most participatory way to get a feature up would be to help us write it.
>
>Here it the feature format guildlines page (relevant section begins about 
>a quarter in):
><http://seattle.indymedia.org/editorial-intro.php3>http://seattle.indymedia.org/editorial-intro.php3
>
>in sol, Jason
>
>quoted here:
>
>Feature Articles
>The center column feature articles on the Seattle IMC site are usually 
>composed by members of the editorial collective, and are based on articles 
>that have already been posted to the newswire. When we see an article on 
>the newswire that is high quality, we create a feature for the center 
>column with links to the article so that it gets longer-term, centrally 
>visible exposure. However, because of the volume of articles posted to the 
>newswire, the editorial collective is unable to read every article, 
>looking for feature quality material. As a reflection of our open newswire 
>policy, the editorial collective encourages anyone to submit feature 
>proposals to the collective.
>
>Featured articles can relate to local or international issues, should be 
>well written, and ideally cover issues involving under-represented voices 
>in the mainstream media. It is possible to submit one article as a 
>feature, but a proposal that includes numerous articles showing various 
>facets of the issue, or a balance of viewpoints, is more likely to be 
>accepted. Before submitting a feature proposal to the editorial list, the 
>URL or the web addresses of the appropriate articles should be gathered. 
>This is done by locating the window at the top of your browser: the 
>'Address' in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and the 'Location' in 
>Netscape's Navigator, starting with <http://>http://. You can simply cut 
>and paste this address from the browser for your feature proposal.
>
>This is a brief explanation of the format we use to propose features. The 
>entire text of the proposed feature should be composed and circulated to 
>the editorial list, including subtitle, title and internal html links to 
>stories indicated.
>
>It helps to know a little html, if you want to do any of the following: 
>have more than one paragraph in your feature, have internal links in the 
>body of the feature, have more than one picture, give the feature a byline.
>
>For example, one recent feature, which contained internal text links and 
>multiple paragraphs, would have been submitted to the list like this:
>[subtitle]INDEPEDENT MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY
>[title] Gag Order Lifted; IMC in Free Speech Battle Following FBI/Secret 
>Service Visit
>On Saturday, April 21, as tens of thousands demonstrated against the FTAA 
>in the streets of Quebec City, the IMC in Seattle was served with a sealed 
><http://seattle.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=3014>court order by 
>two FBI agents and an agent of the US Secret Service. The terms of the 
>sealed order prevented IMC volunteers from publicizing its terms. This 
>morning, the gag order was 
><http://seattle.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=3035>lifted, 
>enabling the IMC to finally break its silence about these events, which 
>Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation characterized as "a threat 
>to free speech, free association, and privacy."
>Click <http://seattle.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=3013>here for 
>our definitive account of the situation.
>...and so forth.
>
>[MINI HTML TUTORIAL--DON'T BE AFRAID]
>
>You can see the "html tags" in the text enclosed in ; these are actually 
>really, really simple to learn, and the list of them needed for producing 
>features is really short. Here they are, in a nutshell:
>
>leaves a blank line and begins a new paragraph.
>
>
>begins a new paragraph without leaving a blank line.
>
><http://seattle.indymedia.org/web%20address%20here>TEXT This is used to 
>make links. You put the long 
><http://seattle.indymedia.org/editorial-intro.php3>instruction at the 
>beginning, inserting the entire web address of the page you are linking 
>to.. then the clickable text, then the to signal the end of the linked text.
>
>Two more important things to remember about HTML and features:
>
>1. In html, returns and spaces are ignored--if you want to make a new 
>paragraph, you actually have to tell it
>
>. Just inserting returns will do nothing.
>
>2. The html tutorial is just an introductory lesson and it may seem 
>overwhelming but is actually quite easy. Once you have composed your 
>feature with text and appropriate links, you can send it to the editorial 
>collective via email at 
><mailto:editorial at seattle.indymedia.org>editorial at seattle.indymedia.org Be 
>sure and write FEATURE PROPOSAL in the title of the email. The collective 
>will review your feature and respond appropriately (helping you with the 
>html if necessary).
>
>The editorial collective will then peruse your feature, and with a vote of 
>three active editorial members, the feature will be added to the center 
>column. As the editorial collective examines your article they may decide 
>to add links to other articles that are similar. This is the beauty of 
>working with a collective, everyone's work grows and gains strength
>
>
><mailto:brady at riseup.net>brady at riseup.net wrote:
>>
>>Not to be annoying...
>>
>>But, still haven't gotten word from ANY of you. Which is cool, I 
>>understand you
>>are understaffed.
>>
>>It would be helpful to know if it is possible to have some kind of 
>>interactive
>>feature on the Seattle IMC to make affinity group actions more prominent.
>>
>>If it's just not possible (or desirable on your end), then just let me 
>>know, so
>>I can devise another plan.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>-brady mcgarry-
>><http://seattleacc.cjb.net>http://seattleacc.cjb.net
>>http://riseup.net/n30
>>
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