[Imc-uk-features] Art of War : Anti-War

[maqui]

Hello


On Tuesday, March 27, 2007, at 07:59  pm, Chris wrote:

> On Tue 27-Mar-2007 at 05:48:58PM +0100, maqui wrote:
>>
>> If people in this list think it should be unhidden, i
>> won't argue further against that.
>
> We discused this briefly in irc today and one thought was
> that for things like this we could simply untick the UK
> topic so it isn't on the front page, it could still be
> found via the culture page and google would still index
> it.
>
> Would anyone object to that?

Yeah, kind of. I mean, as I said my objection for that posting to show 
'anywhere' in imcuk was more it's content rather than the fact that it 
is art (a drawing, a poem, a sound track .. whatever). As I said I 
think news can be expressed in many ways. They can take the form of a 
traditional text report, a video, a photo and so on, but maybe also be 
presented as a poem, a drawing or a hip-hop rhyme.

That's why I don't mind having this sort of postings in the front page. 
What I disagree with though, is to carry content that goes against 
either our ed guidelines or mission statement. The fact that it would 
be 'buried' within the culture page it may make the posting less 
visible, true, but it does not solve the problem. But if we hide stuff 
that contravenes the ed guidelines or the mission statement, at least 
in this way imcuk shows its active role in de-promoting such content. 
To me this makes much more sense politically speaking.

But as I said in my other mail, if people here think tI went a bit too 
far by hiding that drawing, or with my interpretation of it, please 
unhide it.

> Some of the dicussion:
>
> 12:05 <@chrisc> 
> http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/mmid/imc-uk-process/2007-0326-45
> 12:09 <@ftp> yeah - I saw it - it really should be on features
> 12:14 <@ftp> personally i think that his stuff isn't news
> 12:15 <@chrisc> perhaps we should untick uk and leave up on the 
> culture wire?
> 12:15 <@ftp> will that still get googled?
> 12:15 <@chrisc> yeah
> 12:15 <@chrisc> eventually
> 12:15 <@ftp> cos thats what he wants - its clear from his email

Well, I mean, I don't think the role of imcuk is to promote 
individual's work in google, is it?

Cheers
maqui