[Seattle-editorial] how to make the seattle website work

[nathaniel t]

As long as people are comparing Seattle and PDX --

>Writing features has always been an understaffed task.

In Portland, editors don't "write features," they feature newswire items.  
Point, click, there it is.

>I imagine I might have time to propose maybe a feature a month, no more.

In Portland, editors don't propose features, they post them.  Point, click, 
there it is.

In Portland, for instance, a complaint such as Kirsten's would probably 
result in somebody actually showing her how to use the Mir feature interface 
to post center-column features herself.

I know of at least one former Seattle IMC editor-person who told me she 
tried to write center-column features during the "85% Jonathan" period and 
gave it up because most of her proposals resulted in concerns rather than 
feature-posting.

I doubt the only problem at hand is lack of volunteers.  I suspect ongoing 
structural obstacles are continuing to discourage new volunteer 
contributions.

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