[Fwd: Re: [IMC-US] feature wire balance]

[john duda]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 09:42:59PM -0700, mark burdett wrote:
> why is the list for us.indy on "groogroo.com"?  can someone request a  
> list on lists.indy?
> 
> indybay editors often first publish a feature to one of the site's  
> subcategories, then it is copied (and often shortened) for the front  
> page.  these are actually two different entities thus they are both  
> syndicated.  i would suggest that us.indy receive only the front page  
> features.  there will thus be no duplication, although some stories and  
> updates will be missed.  here's the url:
> http://www.indybay.org/syn/production_features_long.rdf

can you list this in the contact db instead of the indybay feed that's
currently there?  indymedia.us is pulling feeds locations from there....

> 
> one thing i've noticed is that us.indy takes the first version of each  
> feature it finds but never updates it.  to me it would be very useful  
> if us.indy could refresh the feeds already in its database with any  
> corrections or updates which are syndicated.  this includes spelling,  
> grammar and also html typos which may have been fixed..

this would be possible, but things would get weird if we made changes
to an automatically imported article as well....i suppose the best
thing would be some sort of diff operation, but it will take me a
while to get around to implementing it....it's a good idea though.

john

> 
> --mark B.
> 
> On 29 Oct 2004, at 21:07, bradley at riseup.net wrote:
> 
> >hey mark,
> >
> >i do not know of any sf-bay IMCista on the list for Indymedia.us
> >
> >hence, you may want to the info below....
> >
> >indybay's syndication is being discussed.
> >
> >we are everywhere
> >(that's how i kinda feel, yikes!)
> >
> >i'm worn,
> >Bradley
> >
> >
> >---------------------------- Original Message  
> >----------------------------
> >Subject: Re: [IMC-US] feature wire balance
> >From:    "bht" <bht at indymedia.org>
> >Date:    Fri, October 29, 2004 11:12 am
> >To:      imc-us at lists.cu.groogroo.com
> >----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> >---
> >
> >hey ana, all.
> >
> >first off, it should be made a distinction between sf imc and sf bay.
> >there are two now, and sf imc isnt syndicated to the us imc wire, sf  
> >bay
> >is.
> >
> >aside from that, i think the reason it appears as if they have some
> >duplicates and more features is because they update the features often
> >instead of making whole new feature articles, so you get the original
> >feature and the updated feature.
> >
> >that is what i believe it is, i am not totally sure, perhaps an sf bay
> >folk can back this up or explain.  and, i dont know a way of limiting
> >that...i think global synidcation has a feed likit that only allows the
> >three most recent features from a local imc on its syndication wire.  
> >bht
> >
> >ahhh! Ana
> >>
> >>hey besides the fact that some of sf imc's features are duplicated  
> >>for some
> >>reason, the sfimc is so prolific with its features that most other  
> >>imcs are
> >>being drowned out. does anyone have any idea for how to deal with  
> >>that?
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> >
> >
> >-- 
> >bht at indymedia.org
> >
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