[www-features] amny thanks again / Re: israel / japan pieces

[Petros Evdokas]

ald wrote:

> hi folks, on friday both of these pieces were posted at once:
> .../...
> just now i updated the date on the israel piece, so that it has some time
> on the top of the site.


Thanks, that's an excellent solution!
Whenever we faced the same dilemma in the imc-cyprus editorial group we 
did the same: post two or three articles and then rotate them for a few 
hours or days so that each could take some time being "on top".

Thanks again, I feel that this level of sophisticated problem solving 
shows a sensitivity and care for the mission of imc that I have not seen 
in years.


For example, during the Summer War that Israel launched against Lebanon 
(2006), when our imc colleagues, friends and lovers in Lebanon and in 
Gaza were being bombed and we (cyprus imc) were begging imc global to 
post a Feature about the events, the Feature article was published with 
a few days' delay, and then immediately within a few hours another 
Feature was put "on top" that effectively buried it.

This may sound like petty bitching - except I mean it as praise and 
gratitude for Amy's simple solution of the same problem in the present 
time, and committment to see it through.

The example from the Summer War is also a complaint about the bigger 
indymedia picture, directly related to the sort of uncaring attitude and 
systematic "antipolitical" behaviour exhibited by many of our Western 
European and US -based imc colleagues, resulting in indymedia losing its 
organic connection with most of the struggling communities in the Middle 
East *and* to the local imc groups there.

I believe that with good will, creativity and committment - shown by the 
approach Amy took here - we can reverse and solve these problems.

Additionally, what gives me more confidence now is seeing that even 
though only two or three individuals are currently shouldering the 
duties of posting Features at the global imc site (I most often see 
Bradley, Amy and less than a handful of others doing this), we have 
*less* of those problems now than before. I'm not in favour of the "less 
volunteer staff" approach, but I'm happy to see the higher quality - 
what we're seeing is "less but better"! The problems I mentioned above 
occured during a time when there was a lot of activity on the editorial 
collective's email list, and a large number of individuals actively 
shouldering the duties of posting Features. All this is visible from the 
archives for that month:
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/www-features/2006-July/date.html


Anyway, thanks again - this step goes a long way to rebuilding trust.
Petros
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