PROPOSAL Re: [Seattle-editorial] Re:websitework

[iamforher at riseup.net]

> Bravo!
>Thank you Walt!
>Thanks for taking the chance that some people
will give you crap about it, and being proactive
anyway!
>You're acting heroicly in my book.
>I want to encourage other admins to follow suit
and start posting features.
>I totally think it's help things even if it
generates conflict.
>So (obviously), for what it's worth, the
proposal has my vote.

Mark Spann





_(previous message)..._______________
> 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.
>
>
> --
>
> --------- 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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