“Now a core feature, perhaps a core principal, of ‘the free encyclopedia anyone can edit’ is about to become restricted,” writes Ben Parr at Mashable.
“According to The New York Times, editing articles about living people on Wikipedia will require approval from an experienced editor first.”
Tags: flagged revisions, mashable, WikipediaDigital journalist Leah Betancourt shares her guide to Facebook for journalists.
“It gives reporters a means to connect with communities involved with stories, find sources, and generate leads. For media companies, Facebook is a way to build community and reach a larger audience.”
She takes a look at leads, sources, community interaction, ethics and verification methods.
Tags: Facebook, leah betancourt, mashable“Another day, another high-profile Twitter (Twitter reviews) account gets hacked. This time, it’s one of (many) New York Times’ Twitter accounts, The Moment, which brings news from their fashion blog of the same name,” Mashable reports.
Tags: mashable, nytimes, TwitterPete Cashmore, founder and CEO of Mashable, has said bloggers should be finding niches to blog about and focusing on microblogging, according to Anne Helmond, our blogger on the ground at the Blog08 conference taking place in Amsterdam today.
Tags: Anne Helmond, blog08, blogging, blogs, mashable, Pete Cashmore“Apparently blogging is dead, it’s all about microblogging. Blogging is hard now. How do you compete with blogs created by established media empires who create blogs? Find a niche. What’s the future of blogs? According to Pete it is about how do you aggregate the dispersed conversation that’s on FriendFeed and Twitter, or do you want to completely distribute content as a brand?” Anne writes in a post, which appears in full on her own blog
Over at Mashable it’s reported that Netvibes is increasing its presence on Facebook from October 23.
Netvibes had had a Facebook widget since August 2007, but according to the Mashable report, a new facility will allow users to integrate all their Netvibes activity feeds into Facebook and use the features that allow commenting, interaction and sharing.
Tags: Facebook, mashable, netvibes
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