[Seattle-editorial] A few more thoughts for editorial

[kellan at protest.net]

I sent an email a bit back[1] about new possibilities with Mir.  Here are
a couple of more ideas to think about.

The features system and the newswire are integrated so, if people were
interested, we could configure Mir to have a feature where items from the
newswire could be chosen to be "promoted" to the center column, rather
then maintaining the firm distinction between the open published newswire,
and the interal editorial collective.  I think this might excite people
more about writing strong content for the newswire as well as being more
in the original spirit of IMC.

Also it would be possible (and worth serious consideration I think) to
have a split newswire in the style of SF.  SF splits the newswire into 3
pieces, local news, globally interesting news, and other global news.
They do this (I believe) using an editorial team who again promotes items
from the "Other global news" category to local or interesting.  In Mir we
could do this, or we could simply ask people at publish time if their
story is of local interest, and partition them accordingly.

Both these ideas (and they are ideas, not proposals) to me are in the
spirit of honoring the labor of independent media producers by giving them
an open, and respectful environment to showcase and distribute their work.

Also errors with Mir (looking over the archive, looks like Walt
encountered one) should be sent to seattletech.

thanks
kellan

1. http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/seattle-editorial/2003-December/004442.html

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kellan at protest.net