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p2pnet.net News:- We’re planning a new site called p2pdailynews.net and we’re hoping one or two web page owners will want to get into it with us.
The idea is to feature non-partisan posts from various pro and amateur webpubs and blogs around the world that have an interest in p2p, digital media, file sharing, etc ———- from all sides of all fences .
The people who run the sites will register to act as editors for a week in rotation. Every day they’ll comb registered sites and choose two or three daily posts from each publication.
Story headlines will be posted, together with brief summaries in English. Links will lead to the story location.
Data will be stored in searchable archives and will be available free of charge.
Content will be entirely at the discretion of the ‘duty’ editor. As the collection grows in size, data will be categorized and editors with special knowledge of given areas asked to run those areas.
There’ll be no fees, and no agenda.
The site will have advertising and we’re thinking a percentage of the revenue over and beyond site costs should be paid to the duty editor of the week. Or it could be equally divided among participating editors with 50%, say, going to a charity or charities such as organizations that help terminally ill children.
There’s no timeline. We’re still in the brain-storming stage so everything is wide open.
We don’t want to confine this to the ‘biggies,’ so to speak. But at the same time, there’s no point in including sites without a certain amount of staying power. So if you’ve only just launched, wait until you’ve been around for six months or so and then get in touch : )
We’ve registered p2pdailynews.net and .com.
If you’re interested, email jon[at]p2pnet.net.
May 12th, 2005 at 3:24 pm
Do you really think we can get all sides at the table? In the meantime, for OUR views, we have p2p.net, downhillbattle.org, boycott-riaa.com, etc. all whom rarely if ever are able to get the other side to participate. The RIAA/MPAA and the like tend to use their bully pulpit of the mainstream media instead.
May 12th, 2005 at 4:01 pm
“…all whom rarely if ever are able to get the other side to participate.”
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on behalf of myself and p2pnet…i’m trying. i’m trying. (see my sheryl crow articles.)
May 12th, 2005 at 4:27 pm
The idea isn’t to try to get ‘all sides to the table’.
Rather, it’s to organize a central web site through which people can easily find what’s being said on all sides.
Cheers!
May 12th, 2005 at 10:24 pm
Cool idea. I’m always looking for a centralized P2P news site, and there hasn’t been one yet.
May 13th, 2005 at 4:29 am
this sounds like a good idea. having a central p2p newsite will provide everyone with accurate information (which the cartels dont want to keep everyone in the dark and ‘on their side’) lets hope it comes out soon
May 13th, 2005 at 9:33 am
Sounds like a great idea. As has been mentioned in the comments, right now everyone seems to be stuck to their own sites. No one site really sees it all. The idea of a rotating host or overseer to the site MIGHT just get everyone on the same page. Something the RIAA, MPAA, and all the over alphabet soup of organizations have enjoyed not having to recognise. They have been quite content to answer anything in a non-respondable fashion with the exception of the hecklers and trolls they are commonly sending to sites now.
As long as the grass roots don’t get it together, they have no issue with it. Combine it into a lump sum they will have to try some shenanigens to try and control it. After all, news of stuff they do doesn’t normally see the light of day without it being complementry to them. This has the potential of bringing a massive audience to a central gathering spot. Should that come to be, you can be sure that hecklers and trolls will be in full force trying to distract the issue and pull apart the cohesion of the group. While hearing of such at many sites, those I go to seem to be spared for the most part such. I guess the membership of those groups are a bit more than they can stand. Here I have seen one or two but they don’t seem to have the ammo it takes to hang in there and have to resort to hit and run. Not very effective methods in the long run.
Go for it Jon, sounds great. Buckle up the seat belt to the easy chair and watch the fun as the trolls try to get a toe in.
May 13th, 2005 at 5:59 pm
It will be fun and interesting to see sites like boycott-riaa.com and recordingartistscoalition.com under the same roof. Not that RAC would deign so low as to be associated in any way with THAT sort of rabble. That might somehow imply that boycott-riaa.com and their ilk have a legitimate beef! Heaven forbid!
May 14th, 2005 at 10:15 am
The only thing that spoils this idea is that the big four don’t have any cogent arguments. Like so many capitalist organisations, if something is happening which they don’t agree with then they will cugel it to death. The more they say among ‘enlighted’ people, the more stupid they look. It would be a better idea if the two sides were both able to argue with some grasp on reality, but because of the intransigent attitudes of the ‘industry’ I’m afraid that it will merely become a further illustration of their bombastic attitudes. If the site were to be seen by the ‘masses’ rather than by an interested few then it would obviously be an excellent site. However, as it will be read by only those who are specifically interested in the subject I sadly don’t believe that it can achieve much.
May 14th, 2005 at 2:19 pm
—If the site were to be seen by the ‘masses’ rather than by an interested few then it would obviously be an excellent site—
A lot of people believe the issues centering on p2p and file sharing are fairly narrow and limited to the way studio, record label and software cartels are doing business. Or failing to. But that’s not the case. Eventually, the p2p debate, and the way p2p is used, will have a deep-felt effect on the manner in which anything and everything that can be digitized is handled and distributed on- and offline.
And that’s saying a lot : )
I believe p2pnetdailynews will have a lot of value for a lot of people across a lot of apparently disperate interest groups.
And by virtue of the fact it’ll be run by editors with widely differing mind-sets, over time, it should also present a really interesting range of extremely valuable content.
Cheers!