[Seattle-editorial] A few more thoughts for editorial

[BFGalbraith]

I think both of these suggested features are really
exelent ideas.  I think they would both help us a lot.
 

I don't think that having to do an extra editorial
paragraph on a newswire item, just to get it to the
main column, really makes much sense.  

It seems like if we had a "local" and "global" section
to the newswire, we could have the authors post their
news item in the most appropriate section (so we don't
have to do as much work.  Obviously, if someone abused
this catagorization, we could either swich it
ourselves, or just hide it.)

If we could then just take the best stuff out of both,
and switch it directly over to the news column without
additional editing, then that would be a great way for
us to highlight the "interesting" stuff comming in. 
However, be it this way, or the way it was originally
recommended, I think it would be a really nice touch
to the site.  

 


> -----Original Message-----
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>
[mailto:seattle-editorial-bounces at lists.indymedia.org]On
> Behalf Of
> kellan at protest.net
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 3:29 PM
> To: seattle-editorial at lists.indymedia.org
> Subject: [Seattle-editorial] A few more thoughts for
> editorial
> 
> 
> 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.
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> 
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> 
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