[Imc-birmingham] [Fwd: [Imc-uk-network] Listen to indymedia on the phone]

[phunkee]

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Subject: 	[Imc-uk-network] Listen to indymedia on the phone
Date: 	Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:53:06 +0100
From: 	Ben <ben at riseup.net>
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hi

I've been playing with the imobile script and blasterisk so now you  
can dial a local number and listen to indymedia content.

So far I've implemented four options.

a) IMC UK top story or breaking news.
b) IMC UK coming events
c) London breaking news and startpage summaries
d) London coming events

[Note: Only the two UK options have currently been made live (at time  
of writing)]

To access the system you dial a local number such as 0161-420-8777  
then dial 5 for the indymedia menu.
The menu is incorrectly described at present but at this point you  
dial 4 for UK top stories, or 5 for UK events

A list of local access numbers can be found on http:// 
www.blagblagblag.org/BLASTERISK/

(* please avoid the 0800 number when possible as it costs somebody  
else when you use it)

If these facilities seem to be useful and worth developing then there  
are various issues we should take into consideration when writing  
features and events listing to ensure that when spoken, they make as  
much sense as they on the screen. One of the main things would be to  
avoid phrases like 'click here for more info' - either keeping links  
out of the text of the abstract or making them 'transparent' (ie.  
links from words in sentences that are there anyway and self  
contained).  If the abstracts were specifically written with spoken  
use in mind then links sections could be excluded from voice  
interpretation by using style sheet class tags (such as the existing  
class='related').

You might want to check out the pitsburg indymedia blasterisk  
options. These allow you to leave audio messages for the IMC, check  
voicemail, record phone interviews, listen to news headlines and also  
listen to the weekly radio shows produced by the IMC. Very nice!

So, how about it?

ben

p.s. I've you are part of a regional collective, please propose  
adding a link to http://mobile.indymedia.org/ on the site nav bar etc.



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