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Los Angeles Times Switches to All-Wiki Format

…OK, not really. It’s an April Fool’s Day spoof from Bunkmag.com, and it’s definitely better than any prank I’ve dreamed up so far today. If you need a laugh (and really, who in the news business doesn’t?) then go check out The Los Wikiless Timespedia. This had me in hysterics, especially considering the LA Times’ [...]

Fixing Old News: How About a Corrections Wiki?

NYtimes.com

Any news org should be able to do more with corrections than this…

Denver Post 8/30/2007, p. 2B

Or this… What? You can’t see the corrections on that page?

Denver Post 8/30/2007, p. 2B

…Look way down here in the corner

Even the best journalists and editors sometimes make mistakes. Or sometimes new information surfaces that proves old stories — [...]

The “W list” is great, except it’s a link farm

Holly’s Corner

Many blogs, like this one, have posted the full W-list with links. Is that really a good thing?

Lately there’s been a meme going around called the “W list” — a lengthy list of links to high-quality blogs published by women.
As far as I’ve traced it back, the kernel of this movement began with [...]

Teaching Online Skills: Journalism Prof Wants Ideas

ej.msu.edu

MSU prof Dave Poulson wants to lead his students into the murky waters of online media.

(NOTE: I’m cross-posting this from Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits, since I thought Contentious readers might find it interesting as well.)
Today I received an intriguing query from my colleague Dave Poulson, associate director of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan [...]

Shared Docs: Gateway Drug to Wikis?

Chris Carfi, via Flickr (CC license)

Wiki maven Liz Henry of SocialText.

At the unconference segment of BlogHer 2007 in Chicago, I sat in on a small-group discussion about wikis (sites that can be collaboratively edited either by a defined group, or by anyone at all).
The discussion was led by one of my favorite wiki mavens, Liz [...]

Wiki as presentation tool: Pretty cool!

Editing the wiki during this workshop was really easy.

As I mentioned earlier, yesterday I gave a workshop about current trends in online media to about a dozen staffers at New Hope Media here in Boulder. In that workshop I tried something new: using a wiki as a presentation tool.
Wow, that worked really well, I think! [...]

BlogHer 06: Tons of Coverage

Over the last few days I (and a few other people) have been adding to the BlogHer 06 live/post blogging coverage wiki. It now features dozens of links. I won’t have a chance to add much to it over the next few days, and I know there are plenty of items that aren’t on there yet which should be.

This is an open public wiki, so if you know of a link that should be on there but isn’t yet, please click "edit page" to add it. Thanks!

More live- and post-blogging from BlogHer

Just a quick note – I’m continuing to update the BlogHer 06 live blogging wiki I created yesterday. If you attended BlogHer in person or virtually and blogged it, or come across such coverage, please stop by and add it to the wiki.

I’ve organized the wiki according to the conference schedule. General post-mortems appear at the end of the list.

Thanks to the people who have already been contributing to this wiki! I definitely can’t do this all by myself.

New Wiki for BlogHer Live Blogging

Since so many blogHer 2006 attendees are live blogging this event, I thought it would be easier to track this coverage via a wiki rather than simply scrolling down the list of pre-assigned live bloggers. So I built one…