[aha] proposal project

[Jenny Bety]

*CITIZEN JOURNALISM or OPEN SOURCE JOURNALISM*

*proposal project:*

*Art & Technologies Center *

*street Forcello 38/a*

*Brescia Italia*

*txt DAVIDE ANNI*

*www.ualuba.org/msn*

*Mashable Source News*


 *Introduction*

*Mashable Source News, web based project investigate the exploration of the
world of communication and information with respect to physical everyday
life. It is not easy to define the idea, we could enclose it as a meeting
point of several ideas/news, or as an observation laboratory on aspect of
contemporary culture, or simply the representation of an audience. Many
little and chaotic territories of experimentation remain in the dark and
they do not enjoy visibility because the voracity of commercial culture
reigns, but the birth of new young trends generates new languages which
deserve their own independent visibility. The determination of the Do it
Yourself culture was born in the niche of the underground art, in the
mailing lists, in the darkest places of the planet to emerge in a collective
magma service where news consuming and the value of the contents are defined
by the users. The importance of the discovery and the wonder generated by it
produces conversation and dialogue answering to the sentence "there are some
questions that can't be answered by google", radically changing how people
consume and generate news, impressions and brief thoughts. It is not only a
match played with media but with the message too. *

*Project Objectives.*

*Mashable Source News allows the gathering of up to date events through
different interface and search anything we can enjoy in the web, all in one
place; it is also a place where to meet people, make friendship related to a
topic or a specific category. Ualuba.org is a good tool to manipulate, to
gather, to pass a comment, to spread brilliant contents all over the world.
One of the priorities is to link the rich and controversial environment
related to new media art and the cultural mainstream one; the creation of
the site becomes an instrument to promote and to give visibility to projects
and artists operating in the fields of artistic and technological innovation
helping the establishment to metabolise the digital culture. One fundamental
objective is to create and maintain a good and valid alternative to the
existing services, integrating in the system with a cheap and co-operative
project. In other words it could be a simple medium to keep updated people
around us who participate in the mutual cooperation of organising and
selecting the huge amount of information.*

*Team*

*The working team consists of the members of non profit association
Ualuba.org *

*Users*

*in the beginning users of mailing lists we are subscribed to or just people
who appreciate this kind of project; users looking for new channels and
languages to express to a new public, in other words a new network. We
dedicate this work to all the activists who live experience with their own
point of view, aware that this reality overcomes imagination.*

*Lessons*

*technology is not in any way an oracle but a useful tools if used for the
right cause supporting human science*

*Technical Information.*

*Mashable Source News is a web application that allows you to submit an
article that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on
popularity, to the main page. When a user submits a news article it will be
placed in the "unpublished" area until it gains sufficient votes to be
promoted to the main page. Find an article, an image or an on-line video and
write a brief impression or manifest a sudden idea, your mood in a
particular moment. Your presentation will be immediately visualised in the
session "Next stories" in which other users can find it and if they like it
they can vote it. Also, you can put it in your profile to be traced in the
future. New impressions follow simple guide lines as for example: Quality
content: is your storey relevant to this site? Link directly to the source:
save people time by linking directly to the original news story. Research
first: Avoid duplicate submissions by researching first to make sure someone
else has not submitted the same story already. Be descriptive: you are the
story editor, so explain what it is and why it is cool. Feedback: once a
piece of news ahs gained a massive amount of critical vote it becomes
"popular" and it pops up on the homepage. Possibility: you can discuss,
save, vote or share the piece of news or your opinion with a group you
belong to in Ualuba.org. Personal details: you can change your avantar,
name, surname, mail, personal reference site, and you can fill in your
contact details for multimedia communication e.g.: IRC, Google talk etc.
Stats: you can trace your activities Group membership: you can manage the
groups you belong to, you have a daily personal report, you can create new
groups, make them public or private and manage the users from within the
created groups. Share: you can tell a friend or a group of friends simply by
filling in their email address and clicking on "enter" key. Share in the
mailing list: you can generate your piece of news, your impression and send
it fast to the most important mailing lists Ualuba.org is subscribed to,
apart from its own. Business plan: our business model is not a winner, it is
based on self financing: for the moment what matters is a good idea to put
into practice, we are a young reality with wide growing possibilities. *

*To Share. To copy, distribute and transmit the work*

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   *To Remix.* To adapt the work.


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   *Attribution.* You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the
   author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you
   or your use of the work). # For any reuse or distribution, you must make
   clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is
   with a link to this web page. # Any of the above conditions can be waived if
   you get permission from the copyright holder. # Nothing in this license
   impairs or restricts the author's moral rights.

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