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Changes coming to London IMC

imc london | 07.05.2007 11:15 | Indymedia | London

If you make use of the London IMC region pages you might have seen the first signs of change coming to the site. So far this has been nothing more that adding a list of links to London specific campaigns, projects and spaces that might be of interest and have some kind of regular presence within reports on the indymedia newswire. Other changes are coming soon...

One of the changes agreed with be that in order to publish on the London indymedia newswire you will need to use the publish page from the London indymedia pages. The London wire suffers more than any other region with being spammed by reports that have nothing to do with the region and this generates a lot of admin work for volunteers who might be doing more constructive and interesting things such as writting their own reports or working on the vast To Do list for the site.

Among the list of things to do there are plans to revamp the look of the London site, not only cosmetic improvements to the colour scheme and style sheets etc but also fundemental changes to the way information is presented.

The front page will highlight promoted newswire items in the center column and the open newswire on the right will show not only a list of London posts but with be followed by a list of reports from the UK wire. We hope this will make the front page more dynamic as there are not many people creating London specific features normally so the page doesn't change very much.

Additionally we are trying to come up with ways to create a 'non-linear' front page which presents ongoing issues and topics in a more visiable way rather than just having the latest things at the top.

We'd love to hear your ideas and get your involvement so why not come to one of the London Indymedia meetings at LARC.

imc london

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Good luck

07.05.2007 15:39

The London page, due to the historical context of London in the world, resented as it may be, has more international impact perhaps than a UK or other kind of page. There are many events typical of London, to be sure, yet many are intertwined, as anywhere else in this age of globalisation, with world events. If only we come to see this everywhere, but in particular in areas with a historically developed global orientation, for better or worse, hopefully for the better in this light, we will come to understand solutions to both local and global events can hardly be separated, but addressed from the centre and vice versa. London is a global centre, and in this awareness, the news, also global, can be interpreted. Good luck.

Jaap den Haan


What happens when...

08.05.2007 12:05

What happens when all the Indymedia sites have adopted policies that all non-local news should be hidden and no gepolitical analysis is allowed anywhere and news from places with no IMCs cannot be posted anywhere?

How will people know what is happening with the post-capitalist experiment in Cuba or the imperial genocide in the oil rich regions of the planet?

On sites other than Indymedia I guess?

Internationalism


simple answer

20.05.2007 17:22

On IMC-UK people posting international news can tick the world topic. A great deal of international news appears in the UK newswire.

n


Get involved

20.05.2007 17:31

The London collective is trying to make the London site a more vibrant and useful resource. It would be great to hear more Londoners views about how this could be achieved.

imc'ista