Pariprashnena — Q&A Archive

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Before Mishra announces it:

www.vedanews.com

the iskcon site is looking good: news.iskcon.com

vedanews.com is fully functional but work in progress on the theme side. News can be submitted freely, easy and quick.
Personally I think this policy wont work: http://news.iskcon.com/submit

i didnt mean a web site where devotees can quote news from other news services. i meant news actually written by devotees, about whats happening in their world:

"our tulasi tree fell over in the storm last night, but no manjaris were hurt," or
"our gardeners dog had triplets yesterday," or
"our regional secretary ran off with the pufaris wife,"

whatever happens. not re-digested from the karmi news services, but things devotees fiind interesting from within their own sphere. thats not what i see on vedanews.

www.vedanews.com wont load for me. is something wrong?

looked like some network prob, it is all right now, btw everybody is most welcomed to publish there... he he

[quote][cite] mishra:[/cite]
Personally I think this policy wont work: http://news.iskcon.com/submit[/quote]

At [url]news.iskcon.com[/url] we select most of the writers for our site and the type of articles that are posted. There is an editorial team with HH Mukunda Goswami, Anuttama Prabhu and several other devotees who discuss the type of content that gets presented.

Those guidelines that you dont think will work are for any other devotees whod like to submit something. Its not a free-for-all bulletin board like dandavats or chakra. Its a purposeful outlet for ISKCON Communications and serves an official capacity. We want quality over quantity. Articles have to be written to a proper standard of journalism.

Right now there are mostly articles from secular news sources as we are still developing and havent officially launched yet. We have a team of writers ready to go. Keep an eye out over the next few months.

What criterion you follow to "select"?. I will make it open, put a ban on obvious "e-criminal activities" and trust the good taste of devotees. Just my opinion.
By the way, dandavats is not a free-for-all directory. You almost have to have blood relations to post there.

[quote][cite] mishra:[/cite]What criterion you follow to "select"?. I will make it open, put a ban on obvious "e-criminal activities" and trust the good taste of devotees. Just my opinion.[/quote]

Writers for news.iskcon.com have to be able to write to a certain standard. We dont want poorly composed articles as we are looking to be a credible source of journalism. They also have to be able to work with an editorial board. If you or anyone else can manage that then please inquire further and Ill let you know more. Wed be happy to have more writers. Its not completely closed off - but not just anyone can post whatever they want like a temple notice board. Its a news site = who, what, when, where, why and how.

[quote][cite] mishra:[/cite]By the way, dandavats is not a free-for-all directory. You almost have to have blood relations to post there.[/quote]

i post on dandavats sometimes and ive had arguments with Pragosh prabhu. Still he posts my stuff.

there are different approaches to publish web sites (or anything else). not everything has to be completely open. as i understand it, news.iskcon.com is an official site of ISKCON communications, and they choose what they want to publish. thats perfectly legal and moral, i dont see a problem there at all.

as far as dandavats goes, they are something inbetween; trying to be an open forum, but puttling limits on what they want to show that seem sometimes a bit arbitrary. thats their problem, too.

pariprashnena is completely open, so is vedanews, apparently, and that brings its own set of problems as well see in the future.

both approaches serve a different purpose and are ok, far as im concerned.

ekendra:
All of them? Word for word? You must be a good boy. </irony> :)

phani Prabhu:
see you in the future; for now we are churning the nectar of openness with only 100+ users

> see you in the future; for now we are churning the nectar of openness with only 100+

and i wouldnt want to miss it. and even if there are problems in the future (hope im wrong), its still worth the trouble.

[p]coming back to my original question in this thread: [b]news agency for devotees[/b][/p]
[p]what i see at vedanews so far are all articles from outside news agencies quoted. thats interesting, of course, but what i was talking about was [i]devotee-news[/i], not from or about "the others."[/p]
[p]perhaps that can be incorporated into vedanews, as a separate category, or rather set of categories / sub-categories, where [i]only[/i] devotees report about whats happening in their lives?[/p]
[p]and i didnt figure this out yet, are there RSS-feeds available at vedanews showing all submissions, not only those voted to the front-page?[/p]

no rss feed for upcoming news, but current number of votes needed for that is very small, so all of them make it :)

[quote][cite] mishra:[/cite]ekendra:
All of them? Word for word? You must be a good boy. </irony> :)[/quote]

no no. they chop the cynical bits out sometimes.

:)

what to do?