[IMC-US] Boston IMC open newswire is syndicated (was: Google News)

[Chris Anderson]

Hi all,

This is right on target. In fact, for the first day or
two, they were syndicating everything, but I contacted
them to get it changed and it was. If you look up "NYC
Independent Media Center" on google news you should
see the change kick in on April 13 or so.

That said... it seems that all of Boston IMC is
getting syndicated, including the open wire. Do folks
have a contact for the people in Boston to trey and
get it changed?

chris

--- Ryan Kaldari <kaldari at monsterlabs.com> wrote:

> Chris,
> Please make sure that Google News is not syndicating
> your newswire!  
> Just because you ask them to only syndicate your
> features, doesn't mean  
> that's what they will do. San Francisco IMC asked
> them to only  
> syndicate features and even built a special page for
> them to crawl  
> (since Google News doesn't use RSS), but Google News
> syndicated the  
> entire site anyway. This led to anti-Semitic rants
> being picked up on  
> Google News and San Francisco IMC being permanently
> banned from Google  
> News (along with all other US IMCs for a couple
> years). TN IMC also  
> asked Google News to only syndicate our features,
> but  they syndicated  
> the whole site. Luckily we were able to patch our
> IMC software to block  
> the Google Webcrawler from everything but features
> before anything too  
> embarrassing got picked up.
> 
> Since the people at Google News seem to think that
> all IMCs are part of  
> one monolithic organization, It is VERY IMPORTANT
> that you make sure  
> Google News is not syndicating your newswire.
> Otherwise, it could lead  
> to all IMCs being dropped from Google News (as
> happened in 2003).  
> Please don't let that happen, as we have worked very
> hard over the past  
> two years to convince Google News to give Indymedia
> another chance.
> 
> If you need any technical assistance on making sure
> that Google News  
> only sees your features, please don't hesitate to
> get in touch with me.
> 
> Ryan Kaldari, Tennessee IMC
> 
> On Apr 15, 2005, at 9:10 AM, Chris Anderson wrote:
> 
> > Heads up:
> >
> > Google News is now syndicating NYC IMC features.
> > http://news.google.com/news? 
> >
>
hl=en&ned=us&q=nyc+independent+media+center&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d
> >
> > How did we do it? Difficult to say. We just
> harassed
> > Google News for a few months until they finally
> > agreed. Originally, they were syndicating all
> posts to
> > the wire but we asked them just to syndicate the
> > feature stories.
> >
> > Good news folks.
> >
> > chris
> >
> > --- bht <bht at indymedia.org> wrote:
> >> apparently also for this day, portland imc web
> radio
> >> will de doing live
> >> coverage int he studio and be taking calls.
> >>
> >> i dont know what time we should start, so let me
> >> know and spread the
> >> number:  1-800-939-7973
> >> bht
> >>
> >> asad a. wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> 1) Will there be a local solidarity action
> which
> >> your local IMC will
> >>>>    be covering?
> >>>
> >>> Yes, A16 Dallas: Spank The Bank!:
> >>> http://ntimc.org/newswire.php?story_id=2201
> >>>
> >>>> 2) Is your local IMC planning any special
> >> coverage of the IMF-WB
> >>>>    protests?
> >>>
> >>> Not that I know of, we just will be having to
> >> check the newswires of
> >>> north  texas indymedia, austin indymedia, and
> >> houston indymedia.
> >>> Free Radio Dallas will be streaming Portland
> >> IndyMedia Web Radio, and
> >>> we are giving out the number for people to call
> in
> >> and give their
> >>> accounts, so it would be good to have people
> >> listening to that stream
> >>> to put braking news on us indy.
> >>> There will also be autonomous direct action
> taking
> >> place in the days
> >>> leading up to the event, but I will take care of
> >> coverege for that.
> >>> Any other cities?
> >>> love and rage,
> >>> asad
> >>> .........
> >>> --l-i-s-t-e-n--
> >>> http://www.freeradiodallas.net
> >>> Radio Indymedia w/ Asad
> >>> Thursdays, 7pm-8pm
> >>>
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