Re: topic tags in samizdat - was: Re: [www-features] Global Protest Against the War

[boud]

hi all,

i withdraw my followup suggestion - the syndication list is set up to reject
non-subscribers totally (not even put them on a moderation queue).

So i suggest followups to imc-commwork until syndication people reorganise
their mailing list parameters.

i'm cc-ing to syndication-owner.

pozdr
boud



On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, boud wrote:

> [suggested followup: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/syndication/ 
> ]
>
> hi all,
>
> On Mon Mar 12 19:58:37 PDT 2007, Amy L. Dalton ald at riseup.net wrote:
> http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/www-features/2007-March/0313-ev.html
>
> > in my opinion, one of the huge problems in the indymedia network is that 
> > the topic tags don't accompany the syndication feeds. i understand the 
> > reason this would be a mammoth undertaking technially, but from an 
> > organizing perspective, it is a major gap: it means is that we have no 
> > ability to, on an ongoing and semi-automated way, reflect the decentralized 
> > nature of issue-based movement building.
>
> i don't see why it should be a mammoth undertaking - it would require
> some work at imc-commwork on the contact database and local imc's gradually
> adding their local info. It's definitely something on our global TODO list 
> IMHO.
>
> The contact database already lists (in principle) all the feature rdf feeds:
> https://contact.indymedia.org/xml_table.php
>
> If anyone wants to help imc-commwork people add a similar table for 
> subject/topic/theme/category/focus/tag (take your pick of your preferred
> name) feeds, then i'm sure they'd welcome the help:
>
> http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-commwork
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