[IMC-US] newsvine: the indymedia killer? not really

[max]

on this topic, michiganIMC is thinking about moving to drupal right now,
cause it's simple, easy to customize, we've had a horrible time with
dada, and little (well, not enough anyways) help installing mir.

max

lotu5 wrote:

>http://www.simplefuture.org/?p=615
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>"Also sounds like, well, just about every single feature and the exact
>structure of I could have hoped for in a new codebase for Indymedia
>websites (or any independent media making platform). User created
>stories with a tagsonomy based navigation, voting capabilities for
>moderation and promotion, the integration of user accounts, the robust
>network, the ease of tagging and browsing tags via simple URLs, local
>news subdomains… everything in the direction of an organic news network
>created and maintained by its users. Perfect."
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>well, here's why it's NOT an indymedia killer at all:
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>'Newsvine is a large-scale news media site which gives you almost all
>the same stories you read on sites like MSNBC and CNN but presents them
>in a much more attractive package.'
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>but hopefully it can point the way technologically to some features we
>should work towards.
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>drupal has a lot of these features, why not move more imc's to drupal?
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