ReadWriteWeb: Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News Source
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 07:51
"Moka Pantages, the communications officer for the WikiMedia Foundation … discuss[ed] how the Wikipedia community addressed the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai. … by the end of the first day of the Wikipedia article's life, it had been edited more than 360 times, by 70 different editors referring to 28 separate sources from news outlets around the web. … 'There's no real-time reporting going on in Wikipedia, it's real-time aggregation,' Pantages said. So the very first level of information vetting, which happens at the reporting level, has already taken place by the time it reaches the site."
Mediabistro: FishbowlNY: Wikipedia Breathes New Life Into Seminal Scientology Expose
Monday, 15 March 2010, 22:22
"Over the weekend, prominent placement on Wikipedia's main page launched a nearly twenty-year-old Time magazine article about Scientology onto the Time site's 'most-read' list."
InfoWorld: Debating journalism’s post-print path
Saturday, 16 January 2010, 14:57
Google News creator Krishna Bharat: "The [news] industry could learn a lot from Wikipedia".
New York Times: Two German Killers Demanding Anonymity Sue Wikipedia’s Parent
Friday, 13 November 2009, 08:37
"Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber became infamous for killing a German actor in 1990. Now they are suing to force Wikipedia to forget them. The legal fight pits German privacy law against the American First Amendment."
Nieman Journalism Lab: How The Associated Press will try to rival Wikipedia in search results
Thursday, 13 August 2009, 22:20
"[The AP plans] to build 'news guide landing pages' that will aggregate the AP’s content around subjects, places, organizations, and people. Think of the topic pages on sites like The Chicago Tribune, BBC, and others — except that the AP will be harnessing its vast network of members and customers in what could amount to a brilliant SEO play."
currybetdotnet: The tyranny of chronology: Part 2 – On the subject of topics
Thursday, 23 July 2009, 08:03
Martin Belam: "One of the consequences of [news organisations'] focus on chronology is that when our children want to do research on topics that news organisations have produced acres of coverage of, they find themselves turning to Google and Wikipedia, not The Times and the BBC."
SEOmoz: A Bad Day for Search Engines: How News of Michael Jackson’s Death Traveled Across the Web
Monday, 29 June 2009, 13:25
"The events of Thursday demonstrated that Google is falling behind in the emerging real-time web. It was 3 hours and 17 minutes after TMZ first announced Michael Jackson had experienced cardiac arrest before it appeared as a auto completion suggestion on Google's homepage. In the computer age that is a huge amount of time. It is 3 hours and 17 minutes during which consumers may choose to go somewhere other than Google to get the information they want."
New York Times: Keeping News of David Rohde’s Kidnapping Off Wikipedia
Monday, 29 June 2009, 10:55
"A dozen times, user-editors posted word of the kidnapping on Wikipedia’s page on Mr. Rohde, only to have it erased. Several times the page was frozen, preventing further editing — a convoluted game of cat-and-mouse that clearly angered the people who were trying to spread the information of the kidnapping."
New York Times: TMZ Was Far Ahead in Reporting Jackson’s Death
Saturday, 27 June 2009, 05:48
"On Thursday, [TMZ] not only scooped every other outlet by announcing Michael Jackson’s death, it apparently beat the coroner’s office, too — by six minutes. … The blog … seemed to have sources everywhere: at Mr. Jackson’s mansion; in the ambulance; and in the corridors of the U.C.L.A. Medical Center. TMZ’s short post about the death was published at 5:20 p.m. Eastern time. For more than an hour, TMZ was essentially the only outlet claiming that Mr. Jackson was dead. "
New York Times: TMZ Was Far Ahead in Reporting Jackson’s Death
Saturday, 27 June 2009, 05:48
"On Thursday, [TMZ] not only scooped every other outlet by announcing Michael Jackson’s death, it apparently beat the coroner’s office, too — by six minutes. … The blog … seemed to have sources everywhere: at Mr. Jackson’s mansion; in the ambulance; and in the corridors of the U.C.L.A. Medical Center. TMZ’s short post about the death was published at 5:20 p.m. Eastern time. For more than an hour, TMZ was essentially the only outlet claiming that Mr. Jackson was dead. "
New York Times: Google Using Wikipedia as a Source for Its News Site
Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 08:23
"Recognizing that the online encyclopedia Wikipedia is increasingly used by the public as a news source, Google News began this month to include Wikipedia among the stable of publications it trawls to create the site."
WSJ: Digits: Google’s Mayer To Dispense Advice to Newspapers At Senate Hearing
Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 23:01
"Google believes, and has been arguing behind the scenes to some major newspaper publishers, that instead of newspapers publishing multiple articles on the same topic throughout the day, they ought to combine the entries under a permanent Web address. Doing so, Google argues, can help publishers–which often complain that their journalism is getting buried amid other less serious content–increase the authoritativeness of their articles and surface higher in Google search results."
On The Media: So Long, We Barely Looked Things Up in Ye
Sunday, 12 April 2009, 15:48
"Tom Corddry, who was part of the team that created Encarta, talks about designing the first digital encyclopedia, the surprising backroom negotiations that surrounded its launch, and plastic that smells like leather."
Observer: Face facts: where Britannica ruled, Wikipedia has conquered
Sunday, 5 April 2009, 20:06
John Naughton: "The story of Britannica is now a business-school case study in how rapidly competitors can emerge – apparently from nowhere – in a digital world. The First Rule of Business nowadays is that somewhere out there someone (and not just Google) is incubating a business plan that is based on eating your lunch."
