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

[max]

has anyone been in touch with anything/anyone besides this address:

Google News <source-suggestions at google.com>

?

max

On 4/19/05, Chris Anderson <chanders_imc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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