TheBell now has a News Forum...

[marat]

... fed by RSS Headline feeds.

It operates normally but the thread openers come from the feed.

The first feed is Morning Star (World News). The MS is a famous U.K. socialist newspaper which traces its name all the way back to Herr Marx.

Unfortunately, I haven't quite got Granma working yet...

This is an experimental feature. We'll see how it goes.

[Tinoire]

I must be blind. Great idea but where is it?

[Kid of the Black Hole]

I must be blind. Great idea but where is it?

Scroll down from the forums page, it says Morning Star. Its pretty neat I haven't seen anything like that before

[Tinoire]

Very cool! What's the idea during this test phase? To answer directly in that forum or to take the articles of interest and paste into LBN?

[marat]

Very cool! What's the idea during this test phase? To answer directly in that forum or to take the articles of interest and paste into LBN?

We can do both... There is a lot of one liner commentary that gives a lot of these headlines substance. On the other hand, it is possible to move important stuff to a full LBN treatment.

Right now, I'm trying to bring in half a dozen more feeds (like Granma) and exclude the feeds from the "Latest" so posts aren't swamped by feed headlines.

It occurs to me that we could feed out an annotated version of what feeds in, as well...:evil:

(On edit: the feed headlines have a half-life much shorter than the LBN treatment because of sheer volume - one to two weeks worth at most, before we recycle?)

[runs with scissors]

We can do both... There is a lot of one liner commentary that gives a lot of these headlines substance. On the other hand, it is possible to move important stuff to a full LBN treatment.

I just posted some photos on the Morning Star Tunis thread, but now I'm not sure if that's too much for a newsfeed thread?

The 'News Feeds' is an excellent feature by the way. More!

[marat]

I just posted some photos on the Morning Star Tunis thread, but now I'm not sure if that's too much for a newsfeed thread?

The 'News Feeds' is an excellent feature by the way. More!

I'll just move the thread to LBN...

[Tinoire]

We can do both... There is a lot of one liner commentary that gives a lot of these headlines substance. On the other hand, it is possible to move important stuff to a full LBN treatment.

Right now, I'm trying to bring in half a dozen more feeds (like Granma) and exclude the feeds from the "Latest" so posts aren't swamped by feed headlines.

It occurs to me that we could feed out an annotated version of what feeds in, as well...:evil:

(On edit: the feed headlines have a half-life much shorter than the LBN treatment because of sheer volume - one to two weeks worth at most, before we recycle?)

Thanks, I absolutely love the feature but wonder if stuff won't get buried down there where most feed threads would get no response. Forgive me for always having suggestions and honestly no offense taken if they get shut down but what do you think about making that forum read only for now and if people want to discuss a story, they can grab it from there and post it in LBN?


It occurs to me that we could feed out an annotated version of what feeds in, as well.

Definitely. And what are your thoughts on auto-tweeting, or manually tweeting, certain things out, even if only the newsletter? There's a lot of socialist/communist/labor activity on twitter.

[marat]

Thanks, I absolutely love the feature but wonder if stuff won't get buried down there where most feed threads would get no response. Forgive me for always having suggestions and honestly no offense taken if they get shut down but what do you think about making that forum read only for now and if people want to discuss a story, they can grab it from there and post it in LBN?



Definitely. And what are your thoughts on auto-tweeting, or manually tweeting, certain things out, even if only the newsletter? There's a lot of socialist/communist/labor activity on twitter.

I probably could figure out a way to "auto-promote" articles to LBN - say we move everything up to LBN that gets a comment (or two, or three...).

[Tinoire]

That would do the trick if it's not too much trouble

[marat]

Definitely. And what are your thoughts on auto-tweeting, or manually tweeting, certain things out, even if only the newsletter? There's a lot of socialist/communist/labor activity on twitter.

I'm embarrassed to admit that I have never been to or seen Twitter (or Facebook, etc.). If it fits, I've got no objection at all...

[marat]

The 'News Feeds' is an excellent feature by the way. More!

Your wish is my command... T'ain't bad, is it?

Newspaper? How about all newspapers..

[Tinoire]

Here are 2 screenshots of what it looks like