[IMC-US] IMC-US Digest, Vol 9, Issue 2

Sun Jan 21 18:53:56 PST 2007

people,

the interviews could be fun, phone interviews then we could rip them
to mp3's and  post them, we can even use pal talk

do not feel hard and fast about this, but interview would give a human
aspect to all this...

vincent

On 1/21/07, Todd Wolfson <twolfson1998 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey folks;
>
> I think measuring the health of IMC's is a very good idea and a useful
> project, especially if, upon finding some answers we considered finding
> out what components are at work which make successful indymedia centers.
>
> I would echo vincent's concerns (while recognizing that interviews might
> be much more labor intensive) that some of the measures proposed would
> only gauge the health of the website and not the health of indymedia on
> the ground in communities around the country. I would add that there
> might be a question that looks at the role of IMC's in their respective
> communities, organizing/education etc. I think it would be best, if we
> had the energy, to both look at some of the questions Chris proposed as
> well as some Vincent proposed to get the best understanding of Indymedia
> centers.
>
> todd
> vincent eirene wrote:
> > heyoooooo,
> >
> > the health of the IMC is not easily guaged by combing thru the
> > websites and gathering data.
> >
> > many times you can have a great IMC website but only one person is
> > doing all the work. it would be impossible to tell from  gleaning
> > content from IMC websites age-ism, that folk older than 22 and 10
> > minutes have been systematically vibed out, that a spiritual
> > perspective is censored because of good old lefty religious bigotry,
> > ect.
> >
> >
> > i  think another way to answer this  health questions is with a question...
> >
> >
> > in what ways our IMC's reaching out to the community and drawing new
> > journalist, web designers, videographers, web radio people, print
> > folk, ect. into the IMC?
> >
> > how is new content being deveopled, how is some form of conflict
> > revolution being applied to internal strife?
> >
> > thru interviews about the above, and other inquiries from different
> > IMC, you might, might, catch the pulse, health of the various IMC's...
> >
> > just some thoughts...
> >
> >
> > vincent
> > http://notowar.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >>    1. PROJECT: Quantifying the health of US-based IMC's (Chris Anderson)
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> >> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:18:45 -0800 (PST)
> >> From: Chris Anderson <chanders_imc at yahoo.com>
> >> Subject: [IMC-US] PROJECT: Quantifying the health of US-based IMC's
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> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Here's an interesting notion-- while much debate rages, on imc-alternatives and elsewhere-- about the future of Indymedia, I thought it might be interesting to try to quantify the website health of US based IMC collectives.
> >>
> >> Using the following metrics, a team could go together though the us imc websites and gather data to answer following questions. Then, the numbers could be tweaked-- either weighted via  a percentage or curved based on overall rank. This info could then be shared with the broader IMC community.
> >>
> >> I know that "defining" health would obviously be the most difficult part of this task, as it always is in this kind of research. The items below are only a very preliminary stab at a metric. Obviously, a healthy web collective will: make features; get input (in the form of newswire posts) from its local community, and moderate (in some form, even if is only to hide gibberish and porn) the newswire (because the question of newswire moderation is so fraught with disagreement, my idea would be to count the bare-minimum of moderation and nothing more).
> >>
> >> If I were to weight these, I'd weight contributions from local community as #1, followed by moderation and features as a tied #2.
> >>
> >> what do people think about this notion? And how would people add to / change the metrics?
> >>
> >> best,
> >> Chris
> >> NYC IMC
> >>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Mapping the Health of US Based IMCs
> >>
> >> # of features posted over 6 mos
> >> # of local newswire items posted in the past 3 months
> >> # of ?spam posts? (unhidden) in 2 weeks (spam defined as: pornography; gibberish / nonsense posts; posts that say ?test?)
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