2009/6/7 Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net>et>:
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.
Charles