Burma threads/discussions meetup

[frogwoman]

Cool, if you can't make it this time this aint gonna be the last Would be very cool to meet you though so I hope you can come. x x x

 

[gnoriac]

ok, domain name now resolves and there's a holding page in place. I'll go through more of the threads on here and pick up some more links for it.
Anyone like to suggest a better name, "Burma Campaigners Resource Area" doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.
Also any help with the opening text would be appreciated, I'm trying to keep it to something we can *all* agree on. It also needs to be good English, the googlebot will visit someday soon and it likes nice text (preferably loaded with good keywords).

 

[Dillinger4]

ok, domain name now resolves and there's a holding page in place. I'll go through more of the threads on here and pick up some more links for it.
Anyone like to suggest a better name, "Burma Campaigners Resource Area" doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.
Also any help with the opening text would be appreciated, I'm trying to keep it to something we can *all* agree on. It also needs to be good English, the googlebot will visit someday soon and it likes nice text (preferably loaded with good keywords).

Burma Activists Resource and Campaign Area - BARCA

 

[frogwoman]

Sounds good to me.

 

[gnoriac]

Cheers, dillinger, that'll do nicely. Unless someone comes up with summat tastier.

 

[frogwoman]

Wow gnoriac! Looking good so far

 

[ymu]

Nice one. DVB addy for the news section:

http://english.dvb.no/ (http://www.dvb.no/ in Burmese)

Pilger film might also be very useful to link separately (this link is to BBWOB who are already on there).
http://bbwob.blogspot.com/2007/10/burma-land-of-fear-by-john-pilger.html

Thanks - it's great.

 

[frogwoman]

ko-htike.blogspot.com
niknayman.blogspot.com

maybe we should put some junta websites down in the interests of "balance"

 

[purves grundy]

Great job

http://www.burmanet.org/news/

is a great compendium of daily newses from Burma

 

[ymu]

How about a hitlist section? Websites to take down for Burma - either via hacking or (froggy's brilliant suggestion on t'other thread) via pressure on their ISPs?

 

[frogwoman]

I'm emailing one of them now (as soon as i can get this fucking new fangled Windows Live mail ) to work!!!

 

[gnoriac]

Added those extra ones above. I won't be listing any of the baddies sites for the simple reason it'll boost their search engine ranking.

However, I wouldn't be averse to publishing any of their e-mail addresses for people to vent their feelings.
It would be terrible if the site got hit by a spam harvester.

 

[frogwoman]

Yeah that would be great, you should do that, just not the websites.

 

[ymu]

Another blog for the list
http://www.freeburmarangers.org/

Also First Post has been good on reports and has a rundown on the Junta.
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=8854

 

[frogwoman]

Have sent another PM round with details of location etc. *gets excited*

 

[gnoriac]

Another blog for the list
http://www.freeburmarangers.org/

Also First Post has been good on reports and has a rundown on the Junta.
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?storyID=8854

Added, that 1st one looks tasty, loadsa stuff about what's happening out in the sticks.

BTW I've added a contact page, link's right at the bottom, you can put forward stuff through that if you prefer.

 

[frogwoman]

Im all excited now x

 

[purves grundy]

Me too. I'm usually on my guard not to bore people senseless about Burma - won't have to worry about that this time!

 

[frogwoman]

 

[gnoriac]

Looks like the u75 Burma sub-sect (for lack of a better word) is a go-er.

 

[frogwoman]

Indeed xx

 

[gnoriac]

If you have a relevant website or blog, please can you add a link to the burma resource site? It helps get google's page rank up.

 

[gnoriac]

Not doing badly - search on 'Burma activists' gets 1.97m results and we're on page 4.

 

[frogwoman]

So I take it the 11th would be good for everyone then? Friday the 10th would be harder for me because of lectures etc x

 

[rollinder]

another link - just found a livejournal community - says it's reposting news from the Burma blogs
http://community.livejournal.com/for_burma/

 

[frogwoman]

Thanks xx

 

[gnoriac]

another link - just found a livejournal community - says it's reposting news from the Burma blogs
http://community.livejournal.com/for_burma/

Added a link on the site, strikes me their news would be a good automated feed to have. Anyone know if livejournal does RSS feeds and how to access them?

E2A scrub that request, I've found it from their help thingy.

 

[frogwoman]

just bringing this up to the top - wohoo ... xx

 

[gnoriac]

Website version 2 now in place, won't be doing anything more on it until after the meeting.

 

[frogwoman]

i cant fucking wait Some activists from oxford might be coming btw.