[Foundation-l] On Wikinews

[Theo10011]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Achal Prabhala <aprabhala at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thursday 15 September 2011 01:43 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> > On 14 September 2011 21:02, Achal Prabhala<aprabhala at gmail.com>  wrote:
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> >> It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the world now follows the
> >> Wikinews model.
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> > 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.
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> 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?
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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