Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/6/7 Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net>: > >>> Unfortunate but unsurprising. Not that long ago Google was telling >>> traditional media that they should construct their articles in a more >>> wikipedia like manner (ie continuously update a single article per >>> event rather than creating a string of new articles). >>> >>> -- >>> geni >>> >>> >> The New York Times does that with breaking news. It is a better practice >> even if it is only a few reporters and editors that are involved. >> > > The BBC News website does too. I'm not a great fan of that approach, > it makes it hard to find out what the new information is (they don't > have "(diff)" links like Wikipedia, so you have to play a game of > spot-the-difference manually). > > Perhaps "happily overwrites totally while updating information" ought to be part of the definition of "news source", in new-media analysis. It does serve as a distinction, say BBC versus us.There's a bit more to it, of course.
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