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

[anarch3m]

My 2 cents

We could use a flow of features.  The old system of waiting for others to attend to a proposal and give an o.k. is simply not working, never worked anyway....long story---passive agressive comes to mind.

Proposal:  let anyone in the group propose and post a feature.  If someone has a problem with tat, take it up after the fact.  This snails pace has killed so much energy in seattle.

P.S.  If no one replies, I will ust sstart doing this.  There is far too little attention to others on this liwst.

But there I go again.  

K, I will post any all you submit.

N,  thanks for having the energy we left in Seattle don't anymore.   


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--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 13:47:51
From: "nathaniel t" <vsea75 at hotmail.com>
To: sheelanagig at juno.com
Cc: seattle-editorial at indymedia.org

>Context: I am a former Seattle indymedia volunteer now living in Portland.
>
>>>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.
>>
>>It is good they do not have to resort to making writers post with Mir on 
>>the main column there, as that is more editorial and that is a different 
>>job. I won't make editors pitch feature ideas and write the features if the 
>>editors will not make me be an editor just to write.
>
>Then Seattle is back to "not enough feature posters."  Or maybe not any 
>feature posters.  Somebody has to do it.
>
>>It is TRULY COURTEOUS that Pdx IMC makes it nice and easy for the writer. 
>>The fact that they have people on staff reading their own open newswire and 
>>pulling items of interest off the newswire, such as my articles, makes Pdx 
>>an easy place for a writer to deal with. And they keep the front page 
>>moving at such a fast pace, that it is not stale. Like Seattle's which is 
>>dead in the mud.
>
>Nobody is "on staff" in either place.  Nobody's getting paid for anything.  
>In Portland some people watch the wire and uses the Mir interface every day. 
>  Other people only post features once in a while, when they see something 
>they're especially interested in.  In Seattle everybody's waiting around for 
>somebody else to do it.
>
>>>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.
>>
>>Not sure what you are talking about here...I am "she" and I gave up for 
>>several reasons.
>
>No, I was talking about somebody else.  I guess it was not a unique 
>experience.
>
>>But no, I am not going to do Mir internal posting on the Sea site...editor 
>>and writer are different jobs, just like manager and performer are 
>>different jobs.
>
>Obviously this particular suggestion was not helful.  My apologies.
>
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