3 responses to “Wikipedia: the world’s journal of record”
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Registration? Oh, forget that…
What’s chilling is how journos are staking out Facebook and starting ‘tribute’ groups to victims as soon as something like this happens. I saw this firsthand when English teacher Lindsay Hawker was murdered in Japan a few weeks ago: I was invited to one of those groups, joined, and was suddenly inundated with journo requests from Closer magazine and others, who thought I was a friend of the girl’s and wanted a tell-all interview for their own ‘tasteful tributes’. You can imagine my response to the journalists.
What I thought was particularly good, though, was how the first victim’s best friend used her Facebook account to spread the word to hovering journalists that her friend had not – contrary to media reports – been involved with the killer.
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More on Digital Doorstepping
The Media Guardian had a look at the Digital Doorstepping issue on Monday. (I’m reliably informed that doorstepping is the act of going house to house in serach of reaction, doorstopping is where you’re getting to the point of physically stopping someb…
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I’ve always relied on Wiki for a lot of things but I never knew that they had a good way of filtering the news they get. Do they have a regular staff that updates everyday? I’ve always imagined Wiki to have a few programmers watching over the servers and maybe a few moderators to keep track of what’s being saved.
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