On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 6:43 PM, genigeniice@gmail.com wrote:
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).
Sometimes they do. During a recent earthquake, we all watched as the various news sites started with single sentence articles "There has been another earthquake" and rapidly expanded them to several paragraphs, one paper relying on twitter trawling to fill the space. But at a certain point, the article itself (imho) does have to stand alone as a description of a point in time, and be superseded by other articles as events change.
Though maybe it depends whether new events have occurred, or whether new information has simply come to light. You could definitely make a case for having a few, big, detailed articles on high profile court cases, rather than a string of tidbits.
Steve