[Boston-editorial] Articles vs. Links to articles- new policy?

[Matthew Williams]

Uh, I really don't have time to read most of that stuff. If you think 
there's people we should encourage to post more of on our website, may 
be you should post links to their work here and ask some of the rest of 
us to check them out so we can evaluate them. Really, I think the best 
long-term solution is to set up a section of our site that consists of 
blogs and encourage people to blog there, rather than posting it in the 
newswire or other press. But I haven't seen the content you're talking 
about, so I really can't say what I actually think of it and where it 
belongs. -- Matt

On Mar 22, 2005, at 10:18 AM, Pete Stidman wrote:

> That's an interesting idea.  We could do that but
> maybe we could make a distinction for certain bloggers
> that are really good writers.  Folks we really want on
> the site we could ask to publish full articles.  We
> could explain it as, "either post full articles or
> post to other press or we hide it.  We strongly
> suggest posting full since you will be on the newswire
> longer than the other press (which has a shorter
> threshold)."
>
> THen for folks we like less we could present both
> options without the emphasis on the full article maybe
> even pressure them to go to other press. I bet theyd
> go there if given a choice anyway.
>
> -Pete
> --- Matthew Williams <mw21 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> I often just move stuff like that to the Other
>> Press. People are in the
>> habit of posting entire articles in the Other Press,
>> but it's main
>> function is to provide links to interesting articles
>> eslewhere
>> (especially off the Indy Media system), whether or
>> not they actually
>> post the content of the article. -- Matt
>>
>> On Mar 21, 2005, at 7:04 PM, Pete Stidman wrote:
>>
>>> we get a fair number of articles that are more
>> links
>>> than articles.  In a way these are almost
>>> advertisements for other peoples news sites and
>> blogs.
>>>
>>>
>>> Heres an example:
>>>
>>>
>>
> http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/34149/index.php
>>>
>>> The article is not even in this post, you have to
>> go
>>> to the link to read the article.  If people go to
>> the
>>> article it breaks the continuity of the use of our
>>> site.  I'm not so worried about links in general,
>> I
>>> love links.  But I think if someone opens up a
>>> newswire item they should see something of
>> substance.
>>> An article or an announcement of an upcoming event
>> or
>>> at least a news blurb.
>>>
>>> We could have some sort of soft enforcement policy
>> on
>>> this- by contacting the writers of these to say-
>> hey
>>> post an article and THEN link to your blog.  We
>> could
>>> give folks a number of chances to start doing this
>> but
>>> then start hiding them if they don't.  It's not
>>> censorship but a little control over the form of
>> our
>>> site.  They may not get as many links- but the
>> links
>>> they do get would be on the merit of their
>> articles
>>> and not the creation of curiousity with these
>> annoying
>>> posts.
>>>
>>> What do other folks think?
>>>
>>> -Pete
>>>
>>>
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