links
Lunchtime links: subs, Google News and the problem with Wikipedia
It must be the silly season. LinkedIn is getting into subs? Plus some useful stuff on Google News and a critical look at the media/Wikipedia intersection
jimmy wales
Whatever happened to WikiTribune fixing news?
Wait… wasn't Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales fixing news? What happened to that?
wikipedia
The dark underbelly of paid Wikipedia editing
Wikipedia's growing role as a verification source has made it more lucrative for paid editors.
Brilliant Noise
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 and more sporadic approaches: Always-on is a more strategic and
community management
#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?
community management
How Wikipedia dealt with Johann Hari
Image via Wikipedia [http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johannhari.jpg] Comprehensive account by Tom Morris of how Wikipedia volunteers deal with people who abuse the site [http://blog.tommorris.org/post/10400620996/hari-gate-behind-the-scenes-at-wikipedia] , including Mr Hari: > David r was *banned *in July. Banning is a social measure where
ethics
Hari: Knave or Fool?
Journalists Johann Hari has been exposed as using others work in his own without acknowledgement, and maliciously editing Wikipedia.
fact-checking
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 [http://www.ridgwaymedia.co.uk/whychooseus.html], took me for a pint. But he didn’t take me to the usual pub, he took me to
wikipedia
Wikipedia: From Utopianism to Cynicism
Why are so many people determined to delete things from an online encyclopaedia?
abuse
Wikipedia Oops
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2007/11/wikioops.png] Looks like one of my colleagues has been misbehaving…
elections
The Wikipedia Hustings
The battle for the next general election is already being fought – on Wikipedia [http://www.recessmonkey.com/2007/07/06/wiki-wars/]: > 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, but
danah boyd
Ways to Warm to Wikipedia
The good Doctor Tinworth, my wife Lorna, has told me many times how Wikipedia is becoming a battleground in universities, particularly in the sciences. More and more students are handing in papers which cite only Wikipedia as a source. Anyone who knows anything about how scientific literature functions, and the