Hi Zack. Il 19/07/2010 15:24, Stefano Zacchiroli ha scritto: > Dear marketing / publicity / press / ..., > I can't find any past discussion on the subject of having blog.d.o, so > I'm looking forward to your opinions on the matter. > > I think we should have an official Debian blog, to complement the > wonderful job currently done by the press team with official press > releases. The two are not overlapping as it is well-known that the > communication registry of blogs and of press releases is significantly > different; we are good at the latter, but we completely lack the former. The only way I can see a blog for Debian would be something similar to what now is Planet Debian. Other than being more centralized, what would be the difference? To explain my question, let's make it a bit more general: we have many communication media within Debian; some of them are working well, some other not so well. Anyway, the real quality in communication is not when you receive lots of news neither when you receive only really important news: is when you just receive the news you're interested into, nothing more, nothing less, and you receive each new just once. Then, I think it should be more clear where should I subscribe to get the sort of news I'm interested into. If there is a news category for which no media has room, this is a problem. But it is a problem also if two or more different media broadcast the same sorts of news, because sometimes news go on one, sometime on another, sometimes on more than one (annoying). This is inconsistent. This raise my question about having a centralized blog or a planet: what should go on the first and what on the second? Of course, the same question could be also asked for other things: for example, I think that our site isn't very clear about the difference between DPN and other news (and, probably, we too have no precise idea of criteria to choose whether something needs to go here or there, correct me if I'm wrong). The idea of aggregating what we already have is good for me (it's a completely waste of effort that people work on many projects, but no one follows them simply because many don't know of their existence). But I think we could gain even better results if we tried to make a mapping between categories of communication and media (and, of course, make the public aware of such mapping). Ciao, Giovanni. -- Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani@poisson.phc.unipi.it> Pisa, Italy Web: http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~mascellani Jabber: g.mascellani@jabber.org / giovanni@elabor.homelinux.org
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