Can you make your own Netcenter Channel?

PhoneBoy asks: "The recent additions of Slashdot and MozillaZine have prompted the question: what does it take to make your own channel at Netcenter? Netscape's website does not make this information very available."

how to create a Netcenter channel

[Tony Shepps]

It's great of you to make such an offer.

Why don't they allow anyone to create a Netcenter channel? Netscape could define a protocol for regular submissions. It would increase Netcenter usage, since people could get all their regular news from a single portal. Word of mouth on people's favorite micro-portals would push Netcenter as well. What a win-win situation that would be... any hope for it?

how to create a Netcenter channel

[sspitzer]

The official answer is: "right now, you can't make your own Netcenter Channels."

That said, I have worked with sites (like freshmeat, mozillaZine, mozilla.org, Linux Today, and BeNews) to create new channels.

If you are interested in other channels, let me know. I can't guarantee that a channel will get created, but I can try.

Keep the following in mind when suggesting new channels:
1) I will need the to work with the people who run the web site that you want to see turned into a channel. I can't turn sites into channels with out the site's permission.
2) some sites are more likely to become channels than others. I can't turn big named high dollar sites into channels as easily as open source project sites or noncommericial sites.
3) good channels are more likely to be done first. If a site has content that updates often, then it would make a good channel. freshmeat and slashdot are excellent channels for this reason.

Disclaimer:
There no guarantees that a given channel will get created, or once created, a given channel won't be removed. These new channels aren't something Netscape officially supports.

To add the channels I mentioned at the top of this reply, go to one of these links:
http://my.netscape.com/addpreview.tmpl?services= newsfornerds
http://my.netscape.com/addpreview.tmpl?services= freshmeat
http://my.netscape.com/addpreview.tmpl?services= mozillaorg
http://my.netscape.com/addpreview.tmpl?services= mozillazine
http://my.netscape.com/addpreview.tmpl?services= linuxtoday
http://my.netscape.com/addpreview.tmpl?services= benews

My email is [e-mail]

For other unofficial channel news, see
http://people.netscape.com/sspitzer/channels.htm l