Lunkhead wrote: One option would be to have the content come only from the official Song Fight! twitter account. People would still have to email their news to the FMs and they'd have to post it to Twitter, but then there would be a history of all the news items posted, which is something we don't have now as far as I can find. (I could be wrong, though, but if there is a history it's not readily available from the home page.)
But aside from the archived history and the involvement of a third-party platform, this suggestion is identical to the current setup.
I think the main issue here is that articles don't expire when they're no longer relevant. This would be a non-issue if there were more news to report.
So is this a problem because 1.) not enough "song news" is actually happening, or 2.) because no one is submitting song news?
If it's #1, then we all need to start scheduling shows and making albums and planning more highly-involved sidefights (maybe I should have submitted Circle of Titles... oops). Or else learn to live with the fact that the Song News section of the page isn't very active.
If it's #2, then we just need to keep doing what we're doing, but actually submit about it. Who Izzy's recent show could have been Song News, for instance. Ross is a finalist in Spintunes 3, so that could be Song News (if he wins, it'll definitely merit a front-page mention). MC Frontalot just came out with a new album. That's
definitely song news. The downside is that posting about local gigs means that the information won't always be relevant to everyone, but at least it'll all stay fresh.