[IMC-US] A couple thoughts on the potential US site

[evan]

Summary:
	Good design is important
	Syndication - pull content from USA based local imc's


Design:

First i want to say that having good web design is really important. 
The www.indymedia.org site is ugly. I think even arthur, who designed 
it, will admit that. It's long due for an overhaul. But there is no 
reason not to make the US site very nice looking.

In my opinion, some sites which are nicely designed within the 
indymedia network are: nyc, san francisco, rouge, vancouver, melbourne, 
brasil, italy, belgium

Let's get something which is visually appealing, easy on the eye, 
provides a compelling experience and encourages people to continue 
reading. Visual design does a lot to create or destroy credibility on 
websites.  Designers and information architects not programmers need to 
design the website.


Syndication:

Secondly, i want to strongly support syndication. Let's make this site 
a collection of US based indymedia news pulled from and strongly 
linking to local imc's. Rather than having the site be a separate thing 
from the local imc's. If we got really in to it we could try and do 
related article grouping and stuff like that by crawling the local us 
imc's... so you'd have a feature, then a list of related articles 
published as open publishing on lots of local imc's... Anyway, my main 
point is a US imc site should not be another open publishing site, but 
rather pull content from local imc's.

in solidarity,
evan


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