Talk:Civil Liberties offense tracker

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Thanks, Phil!

I need to organize this into a proper blog or news tracker, um, thing. Not really a blog -- I think a distinction could/should be made between a list of news stories and actual blog posts (which I see as editorial).

Anyway, Drupal's the place to organize content like that. What I'm interested in doing at this point is embedding Drupal content into a MediaWiki page. That seems like a good way to integrate the two. --Michael 07:25, 15 December 2007 (PST)

So it seems like this is in some sense practice for the real thing, which is to have something out there for the public. There are a number of issues here. I don't see any problem with having both short link-oriented data and slightly longer blog entries. I think we should be frankly elitist about it and choose about three bloggers who write well, but then ask everybody to keep their eyes out for outrage, absurdity ad infinitum. I would say that "Civil Liberties offense tracker" has the danger of becoming to lliteral -- Is it actually a civil liberties issue when some authority does something ludicrous -- kicks someone off an airplane for a short dress or ad infinitum? -- and I think we want the ridiculous stuff out there as well as the more serious stuff to show a general pattern....

I think to do Fair Share of Abuse or whatever we want to call it, we probably need another url... move it offsite. So that's something else to think about...

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Sure -- but remember that we can always mirror any section of content here in a different URL anyway. So there's no real reason to duplicate effort. I see what you're saying, definitely, and I agree wholeheartedly with the need and that it would fit well with what we're trying to do here (whatever that is). I just think we need both. And the news tracker would be a great resource for the blog, you see, while the blog would be a great way to stay connected and find out about new news stories. They work in symbiosis. --Michael 19:39, 16 December 2007 (PST)