[LIS-Forum] NYTimes: WikiNewsIsTheNews

Gerry Mckiernan gerrymck at iastate.edu
Fri Feb 11 01:48:16 IST 2005


Colleagues/

NYTimes:The Unassociated Press
 
By AARON WEISS 

Published: February 10, 2005
YOU may, in the course of reading this article, spot a factual error
that made it to press. A certain bit of grammar may makes you bristle,
or you may think the writing is biased. But by now the ink has dried;
all you can do is send an e-mail message or a letter of complaint. 

If this article had been published on Wikinews, a Web site begun
recently, there would be something more you could do: change it, fix it,
expand it or delete it.

Wikinews (www.wikinews.org) is an experiment in collaborative news
gathering and reporting, and the latest in a collection of Wikis
(pronounced WIK-eez or WEEK-eez) under the umbrella of Wikimedia, which
cultivates free and open information resources written by its users. 

[MORE]

[ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/technology/circuits/10wiki.html? ]

Can We Say "Disruptive Scholarship" [:-)
[ http://disruptivescholarship.blogspot.com/  ]

/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan
InTheNews Librarian 
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

"Limiting Possibilities, Limits Possibilities"



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