Sometimes people ask me why they have to own a website in order to get their news up on LabourStart. Often activists will have access to email but will have no website and no web publishing skills. Today, I'm pleased to announce a solution to these problems - the Labour News Network (LNN), sponsored by LabourStart. LNN allows activists to post their own news stories, uncensored, unmoderated, on the LabourStart website. Selected news stories will be linked to the main LabourStart page. But ALL news stories will be viewable -- click here to see them: http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/lnn/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&view_records=1&ID=*&brief=1&sb=2&so=descend Anyone can become an LNN correspondent. You'll need a user ID and password, but you create these yourself at this address: http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/lnn/db.cgi?signup_form=1 Once you've created a user ID and password for yourself, you can add, modify and delete your own news stories (but no one elses). You can include HTML code in your stories, including headlines and links. This does not effect the work of existing LabourStart correspondents who still provide the daily news links which feature on the LabourStart home page. Obviously, news stories will have to be about the labour movement, will have to be true, not slanderous, and not sexist or racist. They must NOT duplicate material which is already available on the web -- in those cases, submit a link by email or offer to become a LabourStart correspondent. Submissions which do not conform to this minimum standard will be deleted from the database and correspondents who have submitted them will be blocked from making further submissions. I look forward to receiving your comments on this new service which I think will enliven LabourStart and allow rank-and-file activists as well as those in developing countries to play a more active role than in the past. Eric Lee -- Eric Lee Information and Communications Technology Co-ordinator Labour and Society International 3rd floor, ITF building, 49-60 Borough Road London SE1 1DS, U.K. Tel. +44 (0) 403933608 Fax +44 (0) 1713578278 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL http://www.labourstart.org Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
