[alt-media-res] Fw: Imc-uk-network Digest, Vol 50, Issue 3

Tue Jun 26 13:31:30 BST 2007

ben doing more of his interesting work on imc..
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>    1. Listen to indymedia on the phone (Ben)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:53:06 +0100
> From: Ben <ben at riseup.net>
> Subject: [Imc-uk-network] Listen to indymedia on the phone
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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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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:39:21 +0100
> From: LordRich <LordRich at riseup.net>
> Subject: Re: [Imc-uk-network] climatecamp website syndication
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> imc-uk-tech at lists.indymedia.org, imc-uk-outreach at lists.indymedia.org
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>
> Katie:
>
> It should be pretty easy to configure this, at least in the technical
sense.  I'm not sure what we'll do about the stories that Indymedia
moderators would normally consider non-news yet though.  Would you want
control over what appears on the Climate Camp website, or would you be happy
to just take anything that Indymedia considers acceptable?  Would you want
to help with moderating stories posted to Indymedia?
>
> IMC-*:
>
> I need more people helping with Climate Camp stuff, especially to organise
and run workshops.
>
> IMC-UK-Network:
>
> Can I create an action topic for Climate Camp 2007?  What should we do
about the stories they want on workshop reviews and other articles we'd
normally consider non-news and therefore hide?  Would it be acceptable to
untick uk for these rather than hiding so that they simply disappear from
the uk homepage?  We need to get an agreement on this now before we start
thinking about technical solutions.
>
> And can we have some money for printing the "howto guides" that Genny was
working on in time for Climate Camp (and BGG if possible)?
>
> IMC-UK-tech:
>
> I'm thinking a custom php script based on Magpie (or similar) to read in
the rss feeds, any other technical solutions we should be thinking about?
We'd also want a publish button on the climate website which auto-selects
the climate camp topic.  Would anybody like to take control of setting this
up?
>
> imc-uk-outreach:
>
> FYI
>
> -- 
> Rich
>
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:03:35 -0700 (PDT)
> verymeta at riseup.net wrote:
>
> > Hi there! I'm Katie from the climate camp website group, and I'm
emailing
> > you because I hear from Graham that you are the person to talk to about
> > syndicating Indymedia content to the climate camp website.
> >
> > What I understand is: when people submit an action report they can tick
a
> > 'climate camp 2007' box. We can do some magic so that all the reports
that
> > had this box ticked go to a newsfeed on the climate camp website.
> >
> > I'm really keen to do this because it means we can promote Indymedia and
> > it cuts out the work of posting reports manually to our website. But I
> > don't know how to do this technically, although Graham assures me it's
> > very easy. Can you give me any clues?
> >
> > A few more minor points: we'd like to only syndicate the articles, not
the
> > comments, since we think the comments have too high a high proportion of
> > spam/trolls/general weirdness to be worth putting on the website front
> > page.
> >
> > We also have a question about Indymedia's guidelines about what sort of
> > posts get removed because they are off topic. I'm thinking that people
> > might write opinions/descriptions/analysis/rant pieces about the climate
> > camp which we would want to include, but we weren't sure if Indymedia
> > folks would remove these. If this sort of piece would get removed from
> > Indymedia, we could think about ways to encourage people to send action
> > reports to Indymedia, but also have a way for the woolier/rantier stuff
to
> > go directly onto the climatecamp website.
> >
> > If it's easier to talk by phone, I'm on 07866 505 551.
> > Cheers!
> > Katie.
>
>
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