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December 07, 2004
Wikipedia to Wikinews
Wikipedia, a free online encycopedia, has extended itself to Wikinews, where citizen journalists report the news. Although Wikipedia has a long entry describing blogs, Wikinews doesn't yet. Read a Wired story that says Wikinews is an effort at traditional journalism even though the journalists are amateurs.
Posted by Samantha Israel at December 7, 2004 05:29 PM
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wikipedia has my heart and if wikinews is run by the same people i have no doubt itll be brill.
Posted by: soraya at December 8, 2004 01:29 PM
I love blogs as much as the next guy, but as an unnamed associate from J-Skool told me when I asked him if he thought bloggers were journalists:
"I didn't go to Ryerson J-Skool for four years so I could be a blogger..."
I don't think we're there yet. But maybe one day.
Posted by: pete at December 9, 2004 11:15 AM
I love blogs as much as the next guy, but as an unnamed associate from J-Skool told me when I asked him if he thought bloggers were journalists:
"I didn't go to Ryerson J-Skool for four years so I could be a blogger..."
I don't think we're there yet. But maybe one day.
Also, re: Soraya's comment that Wikipedia is "brill"
You're not British. And thankfully, you're not Leah McLaren. So please don't name drop painfully english expressions like "wanker", "brill" and "bollocks" into everyday use.
love ya!
Posted by: pete at December 9, 2004 11:17 AM
What's wrong with wanker? I'd say keeping your punctuation outside the quotation marks -- as in "like 'wanker', 'brill'" -- is more pretentiously (and painfully) British than using a perfectly good word that's been in common usage in Canada since before you were born.
Come to think of it, I remember watching CBC's The Journal in the early 80s and giggling my brains out when Barbara Frum asked Bishop Tutu's son what a wanker was. It was a great moment in Canadian Television.
Posted by: Tim at December 9, 2004 12:03 PM
pete,
brill isnt even british. neither is condenast. they are my own BRILL epiphanies that have nothing to do with england.
i dont insult your "painful" obsession with x-box, so maybe u could refrain from lambasting my slang?
-s
Posted by: soraya at December 9, 2004 01:23 PM
Don't mind Pete — he's just rebelling against his own British stock. I'm sure being called a 'little wanker' by his dad from an early age caused adverse harm to Brit colloquialisms.
Posted by: James at December 9, 2004 01:31 PM
You can read about a similar stab at turning ordinary folks into journalists in Art Johnson's media column in the current issue of This Magazine. The story about South Korea's Ohmynews International (http://english.ohmynews.com) is also available on our web site (http://thismagazine.ca/issues/2004/11/reporter.php).
Posted by: Bruce at December 9, 2004 01:37 PM
settle down kids. no need to get nasty.
Posted by: sam at December 9, 2004 01:47 PM
Ohmynews.com is a great example, Bruce.
It's basically a blog that's become the No. 1 news outlet in South Korea. It's so huge that the new president's first official interview was with them.
Posted by: pete at December 9, 2004 03:51 PM
Oh but Sam I was hoping it was going to get nasty.
Posted by: James at December 9, 2004 10:29 PM
Hmmm... Wikinews. Sounds like another indymedia fiasco. Nice and democratic in concept, inaccurate and shrill in practice.
Posted by: JKelly at December 11, 2004 12:29 PM
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