[Imc-newsroom] the value of summary

[Paul Riismandel]

Paul,

I won't have time to do that this weekend, sorry.

But once a progress report is done, it really should be posted to the site, 
and then I can feature it.

--Paul

At 04:53 PM 6/7/01 -0500, Paul Kotheimer wrote:
>hi Paul et all
>
>Mike Lehman has said he'd like to take a shot at writing some voiceovers
>which would set-up the wav and mp3 audio that's up at OVIMC's site.
>then we'd download those soundfiles, track the voiceovers, and have a
>little focus piece for Monday's IMC/WEFT show.
>
>i said i would download the audio and have it on file in the folder:
>M:\IMC Current Audio Projects\NewsHour 06.11.01
>on SERGEI,
>
>but i haven't gotten around to doing that.  Paul R., could you?
>
>this is not to exclude other efforts, just to give a progress report from
>our camp.
>
>paulkotheimer:)
>
>
>On Thu, 7 Jun
>2001, Paul
>Riismandel wrote:
>
> > Hey Newsies,
> >
> > I've been noticing a lot of postings about the treatment of arrested
> > protestors in Cinci since last weekend.  It would be great for us to
> > feature something on it on our front page, but just putting up all the
> > links I reckon is only so useful, since it requires the reader to try and
> > follow everything--which is not necessarily that easy.
> >
> > It would probably be more valuable if we put up a summary that refers back
> > to each article--puts all these situations in some kind of context that 
> can
> > be read in one shot, with links for those who want to read the original 
> posts.
> >
> > Does anyone want to take a shot at this?
> >
> > In general I think this would be a good tactic for making some stories and
> > ongoing stories more accessible to our readers.  Ongoing coverage is where
> > the Indymedia network really shines, but the downfall is that the coverage
> > tends to be dispersed and not-too-linear, meaning that you have to be
> > invested to follow a story.  I think we can add real value to the network
> > by giving that context and packaging.
> >
> > An example of such would be the article that Gina and I wrote on the
> > FTAA:  http://urbana.indymedia.org/active/news/ftaa.php3
> >
> > Thoughts?  Comments?  Volunteers?
> >
> > --Paul
> >
> >
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