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Bristol Indymedia Editorial Group | 09.11.2006 10:48

Bristol Indymedia now consistently gets nearly as many hits as the Evening Post's ‘This Is Bristol’ website! If you do a 'Bristol' on UK Google pages, Bristol Indymedia comes out at around 7th place, and jostles for position with the 'This Is Bristol' website on busier days.

Join in with the movement to democratise Bristol’s corporate dominated media landscape. Publish your news story now! It's only a click away! Click the 'Submit An Article' button and your story will appear on the right-hand newswire within minutes of posting.

BRISTOL INDYMEDIA - Read It, Write It, Your Site, Your News...

PUBLISH YOUR NEWS

http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/publish.php

Even though our newswire carries the banner 'Read It, Write It, Your Site, Your News' it seems that not everyone is yet aware that this means exactly what it says. The 'Submit An Article' button, in the top-right corner, takes you to our article submission form. All you need to do is fill in all the form, click the 'Preview Before Publishing' button at the end of the form, to check it looks ok, and then click 'Edit Again' or the 'Publish!' button. If you have any problems filling out the form, or with uploading articles, please see our brief guide below.

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE ARTICLES - A Brief Guide

http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25376

PUBLISH YOUR EVENT

http://bristol.indymedia.org/whatson/calendar.php

If you have an event to promote you can use our calendar too. Again, just like with the newswire, all you need to do is click 'Add Your Event' and follow the instructions, and your event will be immediately displayed in the calendar. If your event has an interesting report attached to it, then you can turn that into an article too, on the main newswire, to go with your calendar entry.

GUIDELINES
Only if your article is outside of, or breaks, guidelines will it be moved from the right-hand newswire.

http://bristol.indymedia.org/editorial.php

BRISTOL INDYMEDIA - Read It, Write It, Your Site, Your News...

Bristol Indymedia Editorial Group

Additions

www.bristol.indymedia.org

09.11.2006 11:19

Missed out the direct link:

http://www.bristol.indymedia.org

Bristol Indymedia Editorial Group
Homepage: http://www.bristol.indymedia.org

I-IMC

09.11.2006 13:36

Bristol Indymedia is unusual in that it's not linked as a region to UK IMC. So the traffic it sees is its own. The Bristol Evening Post still trumpets itself as 'The paper all Bristol helped create', which was slightly true 70 years ago but is now indistinguishable from the rest of the Daily Mail corporate lovin' empire.

Note on the left, Bristol is under 'Other IMCs'

Crash

Comments

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maybe more ?

09.11.2006 12:39

Does that count include the people who look at Bristol Indymedia pages from the main site ? I don't know anything about the number of indymedia 'hits' but I investigated regional papers audiences a while back and found then surprisingly low, probably due to the plethora of them. Plus how many people pay serious attention to such papers unless their child is photographed receiving some school award ? Local papers aren't often seen as a source for serious reportage. I would be surprised if indymedia uk doesn't trounce any local newspaper for viewing figures and total coverage, certainly for important issues whether local or national. Perhaps not many people seem to contribute, but many more people read, which I think reflects the trend towards the growing dissatisfaction with tradition passive media towards participative internet sources. I mean this post both as a compliment on your success but also as a reminder of the seriousness of the responsibilites of indymedia volunteers and contributors.

puppy

Ratings war

10.11.2006 19:10

It all sounds a bit desperate to me. The very small group who control the site do this sort of thing every time they slip to the bottom of the google search page. The claim is odd, poorly thought out, likelely to be erroneous and rather irrelevant really if you think about it. It looks to me like the consumer fetishism that dominates the 'normal' media has hold of bristol indymedia too.

Bevarbrook