Internet first source of credible information about A(H1N1) virus
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- Internet first source of credible information about A(H1N1) virus
- Has Wikipedia editing gone the way of government?
- How The Associated Press will try to rival Wikipedia in search results
Internet first source of credible information about A(H1N1) virus
The Hindu
The sites page on swine influenza has been updated hundreds of times this week. Wikipedia created a separate page focused on the 2009 swine flu outbreak for current information that page has been updated 119 times as of early on May 1. Not to leave the social networking sites out of the picture she mentions that there were more than 500 Facebook groups dedicated to Swine Flu as early as May 1. n Twitter Swine Flu mentions topped out at a rate of more than 10000 tweets per hour earlier in the week.
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Has Wikipedia editing gone the way of government?
CNET News
com%2F8301-17852_3-10309840-71. html h Wikipedia. Have you really become just another political organization?I only ask because some clever people with nothing better to do have dedicated their bright gray matter to poring through Wikipedia’s pages and drawing conclusions. The members of the. Instead they have examined who makes edits on Wikipedia and whose edits are reversed.
How The Associated Press will try to rival Wikipedia in search results
Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
Referring to coverage of Michael Jackson’s death it says:Two of the biggest beneficiaries of that traffic bonanza were Twitter and Wikipedia a couple of digital natives that would have been viewed as very unlikely news competitors even a few months ago. Indeed a new pattern of consumption was validated in the confusing minutes that followed the first reports of Jacko’s death: Users shared; they searched and they clicked on Wikipedia…. The Wikipedia page on Michael Jackson is not very pretty to look at but it has more blue hyperlinks than black type. Forget the “wiki” method of community updating the key to Wikipedia’s success is that its pages are designed to catch traffic provide key information and then send users on their way to deeper engagement on the subjects they’re interested in.
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