[WikiEN-l] Blog Entries (Bauer fork)

[George Herbert]

On 3/28/07, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/28/07, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
> > jayjg wrote:
> > >> There are two questions that matter here.
> > >>
> > >> 1) Is Teresa Nielsen Hayden a source worthy of citing in matters
> > >> related to publishing?
> > >> 2) Does Making Light definitely contain material by her?
> > >>
> > >> The answer to both is unquestionably yes. Here endeth the discussion.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Not really. Blogs have no editorial oversight, and their contents are
> > > ephemeral - that is, they can change without notice, leaving evidence
> > > of that change.
> > >
> >
> > What sort of editorial oversight do you believe is in place for an
> > interview in a normal publication?
>
> The fact checker checks that you said it; the editor decides whether
> or not the magazine or newspaper will fact a lawsuit if they print it.
> The latter, in my view, is fairly criticial.
>
> > As to the latter, there's no technical barrier for web publishers of any
> > sort, blogs or magazines. The main protection is convention; in both
> > realms it is customary to note changes on the page, and you risk
> > ridicule if you don't do that. But the original text is not sacrosanct.
>
> It's better than nothing, though.
>
> > To overcome this would it be sufficient in your eyes to cite from the
> > Internet Archive or WebCite?
>
> The odds of either of them actually catching some change on an
> individual blog are very, very low.
>
> Jay.

However, it's possible that, given a suitable request, Wikipedia could
work with the Internet Archive to have them specifically archive
anything that got used as a Wikipedia cite.

I know a guy over there, but the decision to do it on a regular
automatic basis would have to come from higher up in the organization.

Jimmy, have you thought of this before?  Do you talk much to Brewster Kahle?....


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com