On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Achal Prabhala <aprabhala(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thursday 15 September 2011 01:43 AM, David Gerard wrote:
On 14 September 2011 21:02, Achal
Prabhala<aprabhala(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that
the world now follows the
Wikinews model.
No, you're describing bare skimming of the unedited social media pool.
Wikinews follows a process-heavy review model, so laborious that news
dies before getting through it and contributors give up and fork.
The hazards of not knowing about how Wikinews works I guess :) But I
think it would be right to say that Wikinews - at least in a citizen
journalism context - was far ahead of mainstream media; behind
Indymedia, but ahead of many others. And that the reason I haven't been
to Indymedia (or read anything significant from there in a long time) is
also possibly because it was ahead of the curve, i.e. ahead of the
infrastructure that could have really enabled it?
Ahh.....Blogs? News-aggregators?
'Citizen journalism' etc. and repeatedly calling it ahead of the curve seems
rather hyperbolic. Are you forgetting an entire generation of bloggers that
dominated the mainstream media and continue to do.
Theo