[Cmi-toscana] Fwd: [Oscailt] blogs & Future Directions

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> Da: <arclightfire a hushmail.com>
> Data: 11 novembre 2007 19:57:59 GMT+01:00
> A: "Oscailt IMC List"<oscailt a lists.indymedia.org>
> Oggetto: [Oscailt] blogs & Future Directions
>
> Something that we have chatted about here at Bristol IMC, and
> somthing I understand similar that has been discussed elsewhere -
> this is from a 'Future Directions' document we did a few months
> ago...
>
> BLOG FEEDS
>
> When the Indymedia (IMC) project began in 1999, users posting their
> own content onto the Internet was far from a common thing. Since
> then there has been a growing shift to users creating their own
> content. Users having their say was initially the domain of tech-
> savy people who could create websites, or found on leading tech
> sites such as Slashdot.org (started 1997). Today user generated
> content is a mainstream process with sites like News Corporation's
> MySpace, or Google's YouTube, entirely dependent on users posting
> news. In addition mainstream news outlets actively solicit users
> comments and content. The BBC posts users comments and asks for
> images and videos while the Guardian makes a virtue of it's
> 'Comment is Free' systems for user content. In general, people
> writing their own news and comment, and making their own video,
> audio and images is a good thing from BIMC's perspective.
>
> Running in parallel with this trend has also been the ease at which
> a user can not only generate their own content, but also host it
> too. While sites such as Angelfire or GeoCities have allowed people
> to have their own websites for some time, the tech barrier to this
> was lowered considerably by the development of blogging software.
> This made it easy for users with very little tech knowledge to have
> a site and air their thoughts online. More recent sites such as
> MySpace and Bebo allow users to collate all their content – audio,
> images, video and text – in one place.
>
> This trend would mean that increasingly people may not need to post
> content on BIMC. However, BIM is still a focal point of many users,
> and a good place to share user generated content. To this end it is
> suggested that BIMC create a second newswire. This newswire would
> automatically pull news posts of related blogs, myspace accounts
> etc, onto the site. To keep the regional focus of the site, their
> sites would still need to be either by people from the area or
> predominately about the area. BIMC moderators would need to 'ok'
> the sites into this process and would also need the ability to
> remove both sites and individual postings from BIM's blog-feeds if
> it broke guidelines. However for this to work the guidelines around
> commercial postings and regional related posting would need to be
> relaxed somewhat (as with the calendar), as it is suspected that
> the vast majority of blog-fed content would not fit the current
> guidelines.
>
> This component would be a larger undertaking with lots of areas of
> uncertainty, but if BIM (and Indymedia in general) is to remain
> relevant as users and technology changes, then it too must adapt.
>
> Feedback
>
> · The blog-feed idea sounds great! Perhaps, though, a further
> improvement might be to increase the degree of interactivity with
> features and newswire items so that participants can add, or
> correct, information in a manner similar to wikipedia. I know that
> this will mean added admin duties, but I am looking to get more
> involved and could (with training) take on such a task.
> · I have started to look at how many local blogs there are - and
> there's quite a few. Also it seems to be a growing number. This is
> an important area, and I think we need this!
>
> From:
> http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25653
>
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