[Boston-editorial] Wireless Apps- Matthew

[Matthew Williams]

Well, I'm open to expanding what we consider news, but we've never come 
to an agreement to do that. We haven't even talked much about it. I've 
also really only heard you talk about the idea, Pete. If we're going to 
expand what we include, I'd really prefer to have some additional 
section in the newswire on the front page (Other?) to separate it out 
from the more political/activist-oriented news and commentary. People 
come to us for information on politics and activism and I think that 
should remain our focus. But this is a bigger discussion about vision I 
really don't want to have on-line--frankly, I'm sick of talking about 
things like this on-line and would prefer to keep the discussion on 
these matters face-to-face if possible. The conversations are much more 
productive and civil that way.

At the very least, the Wireless apps article should be moved to Other 
Press section, since it's linked to a mainstream news source. This 
stuff is constantly getting posted to the newswire by Gene Koprowski 
(sp?), though he's stopped using his name of late--basically, it looks 
like he writes on technology for UPI and anything he writes, he posts 
one of those little blurbs and a link to our newswire, regardless of 
whether it's likely to be of interest to our readers or not. I mean, 
he's posted stuff on ambulances. I look at his stuff on a case by case 
basis and either move it to the Other Press or hide it, depending on 
whether it seems to fit the focus of our site. This just didn't seem to 
fit. We're not a technology site, we're a politics and activism site. 
May be you saw something here I didn't. Frankly, I think it's obnoxious 
how Koprowski posts all his stuff to our site without considering its 
relevance to our readership. It's a form of spamming, not that much 
different that Albert's stuff. But if you think this post has some 
meaning or relevance to our readers, you can leave it up.

-- Matt

On Mar 19, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Pete Stidman wrote:

> Hey Matt,
>
>   I unhid the Wireless apps article in the elsewhere
> newswire you hid as not-news related because it does
> in fact link to a news story at the washington times.
> Not sure of your reasoning here.  It could be moved to
> other press but should not be just hidden.
>
>    I have consistently been harping about expanding
> our coverage to other topics and there seems to be a
> good amount of support for this in the group.  But
> even if we weren't headed in that direction wireless
> internet has significant relevance to social and
> economic justice.
>
>    If we need to have a discussion of this topic
> please let me know because I have been pushing people
> to try new topics for stories in all of the outreach I
> have been doing, and it would kill a significant
> amount of work I am doing if even one of them is
> turned off because of trigger happy hiding.  (because
> I have to talk to like thirty to get one to post!)
>
> -Pete
>
>
>
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