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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>CITIZEN JOURNALISM or OPEN SOURCE
JOURNALISM</b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>proposal project:</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Art & Technologies Center </b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>street Forcello 38/a</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Brescia Italia</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>txt DAVIDE ANNI</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><a href="http://www.ualuba.org/msn">www.ualuba.org/msn</a></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Mashable Source News</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Introduction</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><strong>Mashable Source News</strong><strong>,</strong>
web based project investigate the exploration of the world of
communication and information with respect to physical everyday life.
It is not easy to define the idea, we could enclose it as a meeting
point of several ideas/news, or as an observation laboratory on
aspect of contemporary culture, or simply the representation of an
audience. Many little and chaotic territories of experimentation
remain in the dark and they do not enjoy visibility because the
voracity of commercial culture reigns, but the birth of new young
trends generates new languages which deserve their own independent
visibility. The determination of the Do it Yourself culture was born
in the niche of the underground art, in the mailing lists, in the
darkest places of the planet to emerge in a collective magma service
where news consuming and the value of the contents are defined by the
users. The importance of the discovery and the wonder generated by it
produces conversation and dialogue answering to the sentence "there
are some questions that can't be answered by google", radically
changing how people consume and generate news, impressions and brief
thoughts. It is not only a match played with media but with the
message too. </b>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><strong>Project Objectives.</strong></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><strong>Mashable Source News</strong>
allows the gathering of up to date events through different interface
and search anything we can enjoy in the web, all in one place; it is
also a place where to meet people, make friendship related to a topic
or a specific category. Ualuba.org is a good tool to manipulate, to
gather, to pass a comment, to spread brilliant contents all over the
world. One of the priorities is to link the rich and controversial
environment related to new media art and the cultural mainstream one;
the creation of the site becomes an instrument to promote and to give
visibility to projects and artists operating in the fields of
artistic and technological innovation helping the establishment to
metabolise the digital culture. One fundamental objective is to
create and maintain a good and valid alternative to the existing
services, integrating in the system with a cheap and co-operative
project. In other words it could be a simple medium to keep updated
people around us who participate in the mutual cooperation of
organising and selecting the huge amount of information.</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><strong>Team</strong></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>The working team consists of the
members of non profit association Ualuba.org </b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Users</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>in the beginning users of mailing
lists we are subscribed to or just people who appreciate this kind of
project; users looking for new channels and languages to express to a
new public, in other words a new network. We dedicate this work to
all the activists who live experience with their own point of view,
aware that this reality overcomes imagination.</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><strong>Lessons</strong></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>technology is not in any way an
oracle but a useful tools if used for the right cause supporting
human science</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><strong>Technical Information.</strong></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><strong>Mashable Source News </strong>is
a web application that allows you to submit an article that will be
reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the
main page. When a user submits a news article it will be placed in
the "unpublished" area until it gains sufficient votes to
be promoted to the main page. Find an article, an image or an on-line
video and write a brief impression or manifest a sudden idea, your
mood in a particular moment. Your presentation will be immediately
visualised in the session "Next stories" in which other
users can find it and if they like it they can vote it. Also, you can
put it in your profile to be traced in the future. New impressions
follow simple guide lines as for example: Quality content: is your
storey relevant to this site? Link directly to the source: save
people time by linking directly to the original news story. Research
first: Avoid duplicate submissions by researching first to make sure
someone else has not submitted the same story already. Be
descriptive: you are the story editor, so explain what it is and why
it is cool. Feedback: once a piece of news ahs gained a massive
amount of critical vote it becomes "popular" and it pops up
on the homepage. Possibility: you can discuss, save, vote or share
the piece of news or your opinion with a group you belong to in
Ualuba.org. Personal details: you can change your avantar, name,
surname, mail, personal reference site, and you can fill in your
contact details for multimedia communication e.g.: IRC, Google talk
etc. Stats: you can trace your activities Group membership: you can
manage the groups you belong to, you have a daily personal report,
you can create new groups, make them public or private and manage the
users from within the created groups. Share: you can tell a friend or
a group of friends simply by filling in their email address and
clicking on "enter" key. Share in the mailing list: you can
generate your piece of news, your impression and send it fast to the
most important mailing lists Ualuba.org is subscribed to, apart from
its own. Business plan: our business model is not a winner, it is
based on self financing: for the moment what matters is a good idea
to put into practice, we are a young reality with wide growing
possibilities. </b>
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<p><b><strong>To Share.</strong> To copy, distribute and transmit the
work</b></p>
<ul><li><p><strong>To Remix.</strong> To adapt the work.</p>
</li></ul>
<ul><li><p><strong>Attribution.</strong> You must attribute the work in
the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way
that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). # For
any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license
terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to this
web page. # Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get
permission from the copyright holder. # Nothing in this license
impairs or restricts the author's moral rights.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>MAILING LIST</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><a href="https://lists.circolab.net/mailman/listinfo/ualuba.org">https://lists.circolab.net/mailman/listinfo/ualuba.org</a></b></p>
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