IndybayOverviewMovie

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Endy bay is an open publishing news site where anyone can publish coverage of news or announce upcoming events. Published news shows up in the right column of the site and events appear on the calendar.

as well as at the top of various pages.

The right column of the site is divided into 3 sections; local, global and other slash breaking.

You can get between the sections by clicking on the links bellow the section headers.

Local means original local content. Global means coverage of news that is outside of Northern California and the Central Valley.

And other is where posts originally appear when users post.

We also sometimes leave some content under other if it has questionable copywrite status, is too short to highlight etc..

The section headers of the right column let you view older content on the site with options to sort and filter.

Right above the newswires are links to filtered newswires that show just the content types listed next to the icons.

The photo filter shows a gallery of recent images to the site. You can view the gallery in various formats.

The center column of the site consists of things we call "blurbs". Blurbs are written by Endy bay's volunteer editors and are usually based off content posted to the site. Editors write 2 versions of each blurb. The front page contains only the short versions and you can get to the longer versions by clicking on the titles or images next to the blurbs.

Blurbs often group together different forms of coverage of the same event. The links to the coverage only appear in the longer versions of the blurbs.

The site is divided into feature pages that cover a variety of topics and regions. Topics consist of animal lib, anti-war arts and action etc... Regions consist of various parts of the Bay Area, Northern california and the Central Valley.

The Santa Cruz region is also it's own Endy media site with its own collective but content is shared with the topic pages and front page of the Endy bay site.

Some Region pages like California, US and International overlap with other Endy media sites. They have a slightly different right column that only has a single section. The Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti and Americas page are in a similar format.

There are Endy media sites all over the world. You can see some nearby sites near the top of the front page center column.

All Endy media sites are listed at the bottom of the left column of the front page.

Other things of interest around the Endy bay site are....

the "About page"... It provides a link to a history of the Endy bay site

with snapshots

of how it and other related sites

have looked over the past decade ...

Another page you may want to look at is the "Subscribe page" It describes how to sign up for a weekly email as well as how to pull Endy bay content into your own sites. via RSS or Javascript ....

So...

...I guess thats about it for the basic parts of the site....

Next.... I'm going to show you how to post news and events. ... To publish news click on the "Publish your news" link at the top of the right column. Enter a title, an author name and a summary and then either text or uploads. You must fill out the form before you can choose to select uploads. ..... You can select between 0 and 20 uploads. ..... Aside from required fields. ... You will also usually want to select a topic and region. ... If you news story applies to more than one region just publish it once to one region and editors can add additional regions; don't publish the same story multiple times. The email field won't show with your post unless you click on the "display email" checkbox to the right of the text box. You might want to include an email but not have it display if you want editors to be able to contact you, or verify your identity if you email to request changes to your post, but you don't want everyone to have access to your email. The "Web Address URL" field allows you to enter a link to external sites that relate to your post. This will usually be a link to a group associated with the event being covered or the original version of a story if you are re posting something. We don't encourage reposts but if you really want to do so try to just include a quote and link so he original authors don't complain about copy write violations. The text field can be either text or HTML. If you choose for it to be text we will covert anything that looks like a link into a link but aside from that everything you enter should show up just like you typed it. If you choose HTML you will have to enter all tags yourself. We exclude content like javascript. HTML is mainly intended if you want to have tables, bolded text etc...

if you have more than one upload you can choose titles and additional text to display bellow each upload.

As mentioned earlier you post will immediately appear under breaking/other on the front and feature pages until editors get a chance to classify to local or global. We don't have that many editors so this can sometimes take some time.

As you can see, the summary appears above the first attachment, the text bellow it and bellow that you can see the related link.

If you publish large photos the site will resize them to fit on most people's screens. A link to he original sized photo appears bellow each photo and you can also see the larger version by clicking on the image itself.

Videos get converted to a YouTube like flash format .... that can be included on other sites. ... We also provide a link .... to the original content.

PDFs show up as an image of the first page of the PDF with a link to the PDF itself below of the image ... or you can click on the image itself.

Audio just shows up as a link.

Publishing events is similar to publishing news.

You will want to select the date the event is taking place, the time and the duration of the event. In addition to topic and region you can also choose an event type; this consists of things like protests , meetings etc..

Events require you to enter some additional location info and also allow for more contact info than for posts. As with posts you can choose if this contact info shows up just for editors or for all readers. Events only allow 3 uploads. These will tend to be things like flyers for events.

Events appear immediately in the calendar but editors can choose for them to show up at the top of feature pages, the front page or even the newswire.

Since editors can make events appear in the newswire you should not post an event twice if you want it to also show up in the newswire.

Thanks for listening to this overview of Endy Bay Dot ORG

endy bay dot org is run by an all volunteer collective. The code that runs the site was written by collective members and uses open source technologies like PHP and MySQL.
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