[IMC-US] Re: syndication issues

[john duda]

my issue with the way the sf syndication is running is that sf-imc is
not running a feed which is semantically equivalent to the other imcs
in both referential scope and editorial prominence, making it
difficult to pull stories in an equitable matter.

while i like the idea of topic/region feeds, i'd also like to get
stories from sfimc about san fransisco onto imc-us.  for the purposes
of imc-us and www.indymedia.org(which btw sf is not syndicating to at
the moment), what we want is actually a feature feed, the articles
which are felt by the local editors to be important enough to appear
on the front page of the local webiste.

on a perhaps purely technical note, i've noticed that new sf stories
appear in big clumps rather than incrementally.  if this is a cronjob
frequency issue,it would be cool if it could run more often, so the
imc-us newswire isn't swamped once a week by sfimc stories.  if this
is a local workflow issue, then that's fine if not ideal.

john




On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:16:52PM -0800, gekked at blackflag.net wrote:
> >    One issue, however: A number of the syndicated articles, particularly
> >    from sf-imc, are just reposts from relatively mainstream media
> >    sources.  Is there some way that the syndication streams can be
> >    modified, filtered, limited so that these things don't get through?
> 
> Thank you for your suggestion of singling out SF-IMC for moderation and
> filtering. Certainly, there are many stories I see syndicated from many
> different IMCs which I would want to moderate or filter -- but I don't 
> see how that could possibly be within the scope of US-IMC, which is 
> intended to be an aggregation of the efforts of all US Indymedia's.
> 
> As you may know, SF-IMC is beta-testing the newest version of the
> software which runs many IMC's around the world. So, we are unique
> in that we're doing syndication differently and that could be
> subject to change. I would encourage you to email sf at indymedia.org
> with suggestions you have about stories we've promoted into 
> syndication -- we definitely try to keep verbatim reprints from
> copyrighted sources out and we're actively beta testing the new
> software so your suggestions can help the greater Indymedia
> community if they are sent to us as bugreports rather than sent
> to this list as a moderation request.
> 
> Looking through the latest, though, the stuff syndicated from 
> SF-IMC includes something from Baltimore Indymedia, PWW, research
> about DHS Port Security grants, several original articles, some
> summaries/pointers to blogs. I found one relevant pointer to an 
> article in Editor & Publisher, as well as a summary about 
> something which appeared in the Nation (not a repost from the 
> Nation). So, I'm wondering if the problem here is overstated? 
> 
> -gek, sf indymedia
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