The Revival Newsblog

You —

Salaam

I am currently hacking away on a newsblog for the website.

http://www.therevival.co.uk/newsblog/

It should be ready now.

I have also added a page in the 'Rules/FAQ' section to discuss the Newsblog:
http://www.therevival.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1267

[b]What has been done:[/b]

1. Wordpress has been given a template which looks almost identical the website.
2. The search on the left hand side, if used within the blog will search the blog instead of the whole site through google.
3. Commenting has been disabled.
4.The menu's do now work properly.
5. Add it onto homepage.

[b]Current problems/TODO:[/b]

1. The blog has a separate login from the forums. I have looked into this alot, and it will probably be kept separate. [b]will probably not do[/b]
2. Probably a whole lot more that I have not thought of yet.

[b]Questions[/b]

1. Should comments be allowed? [current decision = no]
2. Any other features that are needed?

The blog is in working order now.

Forum

You — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 - 00:41

We need to start covering more areas in the blog?

is anyone here an expert on chechnya?

I have not seen coverage of it for aaages... I decided to look it up (as we have a caucasus region for news...), and came across this:

(not really suitable for newsblog...)

[quote="[url=http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/01/16/4369.shtml]Kavkaz.ne…]"][size=18]Chechnya among Most Under-reported Humanitarian Stories [/size]
Eighth annual list focuses on conflicts in DR Congo, Haiti and Chechnya; crises in Somalia and southern Sudan; as well as the lack of research and development for new HIV/AIDS tools.

The immense human toll caused by conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Haiti, Chechnya, and northeast India are among the "Top Ten" Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2005, according to the year-end list released today by the international humanitarian medical aid organization Mйdecins Sans Frontiиres (MSF).

The eighth annual list also highlights the lack of media attention paid to the plight of people trapped by chronic wars in Colombia, northern Uganda, and Ivory Coast, unrelenting crises in Somalia and southern Sudan, as well as the utter lack of research and development devoted to new HIV/AIDS tools adapted for impoverished settings.

"Media coverage can have a positive impact on relief efforts - just look at the nutritional crisis in Niger last year," said Nicolas de Torrente, Executive Director of MSF in the United States. "Although relief was far too late for many, the only reason aid efforts increased at all was the media attention at the peak of the crisis."

According to Andrew Tyndall, publisher of the online media-tracking journal The Tyndall Report, the 10 stories highlighted by MSF accounted for just eight minutes of the 14,529 minutes on the three major U.S. television networks' nightly newscasts for 2005.

Natural disasters like the south Asia tsunami and the war in Iraq dominated international reporting. But in a year that Tyndall said had an unusually high amount of international coverage, only six minutes were devoted to DR Congo and two minutes to Chechnya. The remaining stories highlighted by MSF were not covered at all. The AIDS crisis received 14 minutes of coverage, none of which, however, was devoted to the lack of R&D.

"AIDS coverage never touches upon the near-total lack of research and development into tools specifically adapted for patients most affected by AIDS," de Torrente said. "One example is the fact that there are no pediatric versions of easy-to-take antiretroviral (ARV) combinations like those that exist for adults. Without research and development into such medicines, hundreds of thousands of children will continue to die needlessly every year."

Even though there was a general increase in international reporting, insecurity in war zones again contributed to preventing journalists from reporting on some of the world's most dangerous regions.

"People all over the U.S. tell us how much they want to show solidarity and do more to help others in crisis around the world. But how can they when a crisis is virtually invisible?" de Torrente said. "Millions of people are struggling through crises in places that rarely, if ever, get mentioned in the U.S. news, and in our experience, silence is the best ally of injustice."

Only selected MSF documents are posted on Alertnet. For a complete selection of MSF news, please visit the MSF International website.

Source: AlertNet

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*DUST* — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 - 13:07

[quote="Beast"]Who edited [i]my[/i] blog-post?[/quote]
i did. 😛 (to add the 'discuss here' link)

[size=7]hope u didnt mind...[/size]

*DUST* — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 - 07:54

[quote="Admin"]erm...

http://www.therevival.co.uk/newsblog/

(homepage has other stuff on it aswell...)

:wink:[/quote]
yeh :roll: 😛 i was gonna link the newsblog page itself, but i thought the intro to it on the homepage is cool (and as obvious as can be!!) and she didnt know wot a newsblog was, so it'd provide that explanation for her...

You — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 - 20:54

That is ok.

(and there ismore stuff written in the guidelines and faq's setion of these forums. If anyone has suggestions on improving that, let me know.)

*DUST* — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 - 00:52

before u ask irfan:

the original (Iraq) article on the BBC had been updated, so i replaced ur post with the updated version.

You — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 - 19:06

Ok I have made some changes to how the newsblog shows on the homepage.

I am also gonna add a few newsitems by category under the two news items that are visible atm.

So far I have :

[url=http://www.therevival.co.uk/test.php]Test Page[/url]

I cannot seem to have more than five of the categories there...

You — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 - 19:46

I have split the headline only items into two columns on the test page.

Feedback needed.

Beast — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 - 21:52

Admin, alot of text on the homepage has become 'bold'.

I might have had something to do with it.

Tell me it's not my fault. :?

You — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 - 22:00

I have fixed it.

(you had the bold tag, then more, then the end bold. So on the front page, the bold tag was there, but not the end bold... as that would only be seen after clicking more... technical stuff...)

You — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 - 22:03

Its ok.

The software does have a few small problems.

One of them was shown there.

another is the fact that if the first post has small writing... it can make the following items' writing small aswell.

And I need to make the adding class to image automatic...

Beast — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 - 23:43

The NewsBlog has been going for a week now.

What do you think of it?

Has it become your one-stop-shop for news?

Dave — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 - 23:47

[quote="Beast"]The NewsBlog has been going for a week now.

What do you think of it?

Has it become your one-stop-shop for news?[/quote]

not really... lol I still don't have much respect for blogs, never had

You — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 - 23:49

More importantly what do the contributers think?

Beast you have done the majority of the work...

I myself like it. Its not my onestop place.... but that is because while I do not read asmuch news as i used to, I still visit loads of sites.

(apart from techy stuff I used to go to bbc, guardian, googlenews cnn & the mirror daily...)

But I have spotted topics here that I have missed elsewhere.

Dave — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 - 23:14

Okay it's still not letting me do the pagebreak thing.

And this time I know it's not my browser since I changed browsers...

Whats going on!?

*DUST* — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 - 17:57

Irf, i've found The Independent's article on IslamExpo, which uv posted from IslamOnline. do u wanna replace it?

*DUST* — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 - 18:45

[quote="Beast"]If you want.[/quote]
ok cool. and admin y has all the writing gone small? [size=7]did i do that?[/size] :? 🙁

Beast — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 - 18:53

[quote="*DUST*"][quote="Beast"]If you want.[/quote]
ok cool. and admin y has all the writing gone small? [size=7]did i do that?[/size] :? :([/quote]

[size=7]Yes you did. You've messed everything up. It'll take ages to put right. I hope you're proud!!! [/size]

*DUST* — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 - 19:09

yeh right beast, my question was to admin. 😛 besides, looks like u wer the first one to mess up the newsblog page...:

[quote="Beast"]Admin, alot of text on the homepage has become 'bold'.

I might have had something to do with it.

Tell me it's not my fault. :?[/quote]
😂

Beast — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 - 20:26

[quote="*DUST*"]Irf, i've found The Independent's article on IslamExpo, which uv posted from IslamOnline. do u wanna replace it?[/quote]

Do you want to replace it?

Or shall I do it using the non-existent link you've provided me with?

*DUST* — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 - 20:46

[quote="Beast"][quote="*DUST*"]Irf, i've found The Independent's article on IslamExpo, which uv posted from IslamOnline. do u wanna replace it?[/quote]

Do you want to replace it?

Or shall I do it using the non-existent link you've provided me with?[/quote]
😂 chill, i'm about to do it... [size=7]some of us have a life yaknow...[/size] 😛

You — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 - 20:15

I do not think the categories are working too well... all 15 posts on the front page of the newsblog are under the category 'Middle-east'!

Beast — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 - 20:20

[quote="Admin"]I do not think the categories are working too well... all 15 posts on the front page of the newsblog are under the category 'Middle-east'![/quote]

No they're not.

Have another look.

You — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 - 20:30

I was looking at the Middleast category page!

:oops:

No wonder all the articles were about the middle-east!