Gawking at the Washington Post

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- Gawking at the Washington Post
- NIH staffers get into Wiki world
- Wikipedia May Be a Font of Facts but It’s a Desert for Photos

Gawking at the Washington Post
Huffington Post
So: how can Washington Post compete against Gawker’s 10x content output advantage and probably 40x cost advantage? Answer: they can’t if they compete in creating the same kinds of content. Question: do you think the Washington Post piece was worth 10 times more to you as a reader than the Gawker piece was? Was it worth 40 times more to you as a reader? Wikipedia vs. BritannicaSee for instance Britannica’s original response to Wikipedia. Wikipedia offered basic general information easily for free usually with links out to more substantial info. Whether or not Wikipedia is “as good as” Britannica matters not a whit to its millions of readers: it is “good enough” for them meaning that the sale value of “just providing basic general information” got a lot closer to zero all of a sudden. I’m not sure how Britannica is doing these days but if it is to survive it has to innovate in ways that deliver more value than “just providing basic general information. ” And its in that added value where the new business opportunities lie (and I don’t claim to know the answers for Britannica).

NIH staffers get into Wiki world
Press of Atlantic City
At some point many end up atWikipedia. “More and more people are using the Web to get their healthinformation to augment what they learn from their physicians” saysJohn T. Burklow the public liaison for the National Institutes ofHealth. A recent survey by the Pew Internet & American LifeProject shows researching health information is the third mostpopular online activity among adults after e-mail and generalsearching. To make online information more reliable NIH is encouraging itsscientists and science writers to edit and even initiate Wikipediaarticles in their fields.

Wikipedia May Be a Font of Facts but It’s a Desert for Photos
New York Times
There you’ll find a fuzzy shot of. Berry from the mid-1980s when she was part of a U.
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