Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/6/7 Fred Bauder fredbaud@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.
Charles