Mirko is suggesting we have a segment of headlines somewhere on the newsroom. See below email.
Thoughts?
Brian McNeil
-----Original Message----- From: Mirko Lindner [mailto:mirko@creativecommons.se] Sent: 04 June 2008 11:42 To: Brian.McNeil@Wikinewsie.org Subject: Wikinews and JustFM
Hi again,
I did some thinking...well that sounds to great a message ;) I had an idea, how about creating a "tool" that allows people to upload one headline at a time, so the same way the wikinews usually work. Okay that's not quite clear yet...
Let's say someone writes a Headline in the Newsroom (if that is actually the place) and he could also record just this one headline and store it somewhere either in the newsroom or somewhere else. The radio would then pick the last 5 or 6 headlines recorded and build adhoc news. We would have to come up with a mechanism of keeping more important stuff longer in the loop of course, but I figured it would bring down the threshold for someone to record a part of the news, as it is 20 seconds rather than several minutes one has to record...
What do you think?
/mirko
PS: I haven't thought about the technical side yet, but I am sure we can find a way to do all this ;)
PPS: As I am preparing for a semi-official announcement of JustFM I wanted to ask if we should include wikinews as part of the radio and explain a bit how the newsroom works or sth. Say that the news lie with the wikimedia and that we would be more than happy about anyone who wants to get involved, please click here to get to the wikinews site ... Well I would work on the text a bit, but as a general idea ;)