[IMC-US] What's the Matter with Indymedia?

[bht]

Hey Ryan, all.

portland indymedia is a tool to serve the folks in southern cascadia.  
it sucks that folks outside of cascadia are having trouble using the 
cities list, but i guess thats why you have your own sites, and cities 
lists :-)

the criticisms and praise are quite welsome, and the cities list is 
being constantly worked on.  the announcement feature for it is here:  
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/02/310808.shtml (always at the 
bottom of the cities list)

i am pretty sure this list was contacted when the cities list was first 
being arranged, asking folks from various imc's what bioregion they felt 
they belonged to.  it would be great if anyone who curnetly feels 
misplaced on the cities list to offer a different placing (even a whole 
new subheading, if thats what it takes) with some kind of web-based 
back-up so that folks who are confused can figure out the reasoning 
behind the placements.

As for appalachia, which has been called into question twice now (by 
john and ryan...baltimore and tennessee imc) i used this reference from 
wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia

Which clearly states that some counties of tennessee and maryland were 
considered appalachia.  however, since i am not from there, it is open 
to change as long as you can offer some kind of background for why you 
want it categorized somehwere else or want to create a new subheading. 

Some things on the forefront i think are Azatlan for southwest and 
mexico imc's, and redoing what is currently Mississippi Delta, since 
that one is pretty obvioulsy not the best it could be.

bht

Ryan Kaldari wrote:

> I do agree with her assessment that Portland's "Turtle Island" IMC 
> list is less than helpful. For example, the first two places I looked 
> for the Tennessee IMC on the list were "Southeast" and "Mississippi 
> Delta", but I finally found it in "Appalachia". How anyone from 
> outside the US would know where to look is beyond me.
> Ryan Kaldari
>