ecowarrior, I think your story has potential but needs some improvement. I've got a few suggestions, and if you give them a try, I'd be happy to remove this flag.
I wasnt sure what was newsworthy in this story. News should always be about posting current stuff - new things you've discovered.
Please review What Makes News News. It can really help ify ou follow the old "W5" news formula -- making sure you have answered the questions: Who? What? Where? When? And Why? (You might want to check out our J-Tips for more help.)




Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (3)
at 16:42 on January 27th, 2009
Thanks Sanjay.
This recent post is actually my lecture on communication skills and is not intended for a news story hence, I'm taking your suggestion constructively and remove it now. thanks
Ecowarrior
BTW, Thanks for reading my article and indeed, I found your linked tips very informative and I also tagged it at my; http://electromedia.multiply.com/links/item/50/Journalism_Tips_from_www.nowpublic.com.
Also, for those are still interested to know what the "distace factor on communications is all about, please click (or copy-paste this in your web browser) link; http://electromedia.multiply.com/photos/album/33/The_Distance_Factor_in_Communications
Cheers!
at 10:16 on February 2nd, 2009
I actual think that citizen journalism is sometimes lost here on this news community, there are in fact citizen journalist articles and real news articles. let me explain further as I actual find as an article writer nothing wrong in a knowledge related article as we see these everyday within our daily newspapers and no one frowns and says this is not news. knowledge is news and if its fresh and informative, well written and readers are interested its citizen journalism at its best.
Your actual article was in fact very interesting and if you are Art Tibaldo the writer and not just a seeder then to my mind it clearly should be classified as an interest article the factor that I would suggest though i am pretty sure the language used is tagalog which in the sense is similar to cebuano a tongue I am more use to but no expert in its use. I would of introduced the aditive of which language you where using as most readers here would not have a clue.
But why I am actually queering is that you have erased the article and now your showing what seems to be code from Microsoft word that sometimes through a software glitch on now public adds it self to the top of your word document article.
A good article that needed just a tweek or two as suggested by Sanjay Jha, but even though Sanjay could not see the news-worthyness as Sanjay is news minded it was a drastic action to eradicate its present here on now public, of which I know Sanjay would agree on.
By and by I have studied communication when I was in the British forces your lecture was of course interesting to me and gave me a few memories of yester-year and a message about reinforcement that ended up at the other end as a list of ration requirements.
Also a message sent to a troop of French forces via a string of flag communication systems in answer to a simple question should he uses the side of the track that would give cover to his troops or just march down the left hand side of the track in normal formation. The answer was use the right hand side of the track. That message was sent to all troops in France and since that day the right hand side of the road was the legal side to travel on. But of course the British prefer the left side of the track or road to allow freedom to use ones sword defensively if needed.
Yes long distance communication had its problems it was not just the word of mouth but message sending tools and even signal flags of waring navel fleets. The charge of the lightbrigade that help to win the battle of Waterloo for the British forces and allies was instigated because of a badly communicated message. The distance between the brigadeer and the Light Brigade though not that far still was far enough to cause a problem in communication.
Today such bad communication could start a nuclear war in this modern technical age its software that could be the fault of such an error of communication not by man to man but computer to computer but the error will always relate to a human mistake in programing or design and we humans normally have a known ratio of 5 to 15% of making a mistake.
at 14:09 on February 11th, 2009
a personal message was sent to Babel-Fish as a reply.
Thanks
Ecowarrior