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Morning Coffee Reading, from the 24 hour social-media, digital-first world…
Five recent reads you might have missed, and are well-worth your time: It’s a 24/7 social media world out there Friends of the blog Brilliant Noise have done some research into the difference between “always on” Twitter presence…
#ftmedia12 - Wikipedia and harnessing the power of social media
Wikipedia is becoming increasingly important to our information landscape - but how reliable is it, and how well-balanced are its contributors?
How Wikipedia dealt with Johann Hari
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Hari: Knave or Fool?
Greenslade argues fool: > I admit that, having written that I didn’t believe Hari guilty of passing off somebody else’s intellectual work as his own, it did give me pause for thought. > > But I concluded, in company with other…
Fact-checking, Wikipedia and basic journalistic credibility
When I was in my early 20s, and working in my first proper journalism job, my features editor and boss at the time, Andy, took me for a pint. But he didn’t take me to the usual pub, he…
Wikipedia Oops
Looks like one of my colleagues has been misbehaving……
The Wikipedia Hustings
The battle for the next general election is already being fought – on Wikipedia: Dawn Butler (Lab – Brent South) and Sarah Teather (LD – Brent East) will be fighting it out for the re-drawn seat of Brent Central at the next election,…