2011/11/26 Bod Notbod <bodnotbod(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Fred Bauder
<fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
There has been some discussion in journalism
circles that newspapers, who
after all, provide the raw material for many of our topical articles
might copy our system of organizing material under a subject heading
The Guardian already does this in a way, try clicking on one of the
headings here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/list/allnewskeywords
The BBC News site also used to put together something akin to our
portals for some subjects but perhaps they disappeared in the last
redesign since I can't find them now.
Bodnotbod
Yes, it's an interesting development, but not exactly news in the news industry:
http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/02/the-context-based-news-cycle-editor-john-o…
:
"O’Neil said he had read a statistic that roughly a third of
Wikipedia’s traffic came from only about 3,000 of its now more than 17
million pages. “We’re concentrating more on that upper end of the
spectrum.”"
http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/08/how-the-associated-press-will-try-to-rival…
:"The document states flatly, “The Wikipedia model of standing,
authoritative pages could be challenged.”"