Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Anyone can edit a Wiki, for better or for worse InfoWorld's Jon Udell analyzes how the anyone-can-edit-this-page Wikipedia works around  vandalism or content disputes. See his Wikipedia and the social construction of knowledge. As he says, "There is no way that Wikipedia can prevent such things from happening. But the mechanisms it has evolved to deal with them are fascinating and worthy of study. "  [Jon's Radio] Wikipedia keeps a record of changes that were made and who made them, so it's possible to retrieve deleted information as well as fixing errors or contributing new material. Coincidentally, the Wikipedia page he uses as an example is one I've contributed to, as well as trying to keep my own page on the same subject, podcasting, up to date. Either way, it's a lot of work. At least in Wikipedia there's help. It's hard to tell how long a page with any controversial content will stay intact, but the process is fascinating. Jon also has a good tool to demonstrate the sequence of changes, something he calls a screencast. 11:05:14 PM    comment [] Aggregating new newsrooms & more Tenn. Web awards A news aggregator catchup session turned up two discussions of ways to change newsrooms: A New Newsroom. Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine: A new newsroom - Jarvis has some great ideas on the newsroom of the future and the future of news. He sees three major areas in which newsrooms need to change - news gathering, distribution, and coming to grips with the fact that news is a conversation. He then gives 10 ways to help start the change. [from J-log] The 11 Layers of Citizen Journalism. Poynter Online: Steve Outing reviews different ways to incorporate citizen journalism into news sites and newsrooms. "This article is designed to help publishers and editors understand citizen journalism and how it might be incorporated into their Web sites and legacy media. We'll look at how news organizations can employ the citizen-journalism concept, and we'll approach it by looking at the different levels or layers available. Citizen journalism isn't one simple concept that can be applied universally by all news organizations. It's much more complex, with many potential variations." [via unmediated] More Tennessee Web Awards Last week I mentioned Al Gore's Webby award, then took a few days off... and completely missed the Editor & Publisher "EPpy" awards for news websites -- including one right here in town to the Knoxville News Sentinel's KnoxNews -- for its multimedia slugfest, "Inside the Toughman." The Memphis Commercial Appeal was a runner-up in another EPpy category, for its "50 Years of Rock" package. 10:40:27 PM    comment []

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