IndyMedia is a project well worth supporting. The mainstream media industry is great and all, but after a while, it gets boring being lied to. IndyMedia is a brave effort towards a more inclusive approach to media access, although currently it lacks much by way of trust and 'provenance' infrastructure. Slashdot, the geek news site, has more filtering and trust machinery than most current IndyMedia sites. IndyMedia risks being drowned out by noise and spam...
So I've been experimenting with a proposal for FOAF augmented RSS feeds in the Mir content management system which now powers the UK IMC. It raises issues about privacy, identity, and (most immediately) technical concerns about the proper use of 'dc:creator' in RSS 1.0 feeds.This is a modest step towards some machinery for filtering IndyMedia news through 'web of trust' machinery. Not censorship, just a way of keeping track of who said what, and what other things those sayers have said...
Posted by danbri at June 22, 2003 01:00 AM