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

[BFGalbraith]

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


I have been very skeptical of the idea that reducing
the Seattle IMC to a Tech and Editorial team would
suddenly make our structural problems go away. 

Right now there is a major philisophical problem:
Are we-
A)Primarily here to publisize our own writing
or
B)Primarily here to be a community news resource

Because our number 1 priority cannot be both, and as
long as we have a stagnant center column and a
newswire that attracts and supports newswire spam,
it's not a community resource at all - there's no
reason to go to Seattle's site instead of say Vancuver
or Portland's.  It's just not a resource for local
readers OR local writers what so ever, as it is now.

Why can't this change?  Beat's the hell out of me, but
since method of change is an organizational structure
issue, it's pretty clear we have major structure
problems right here on the editorial team.

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-Benjamin 

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