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, at least for their online sites.
Even our most aggressive deletionists have never tried to delete everything that is more than one day old.
Fred
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@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
2011/11/26 Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com:
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@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-on... : "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.”"
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