Category Archives: Curation

What makes an online community?

Dan asked a good question this morning. It stemmed from Jodi’s story about the woman who lost her money-filled purse in a Bozeman parking lot and had it returned by a Good Samaritan. Dan noted that while our Web copy had only one comment, the pared-down AP version on the Billings Gazette’s Web site had [...]
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Jimmy Wales speaks with Poynter about AP topic pages

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales spoke with Poynter about the Associated Press’s plan to produce some sort of topics pages for news. This comment from Wales stuck out to me. People do often come to Wikipedia when major news is breaking. This is not our primary intention, but of course it happens. The reason that it happens [...]
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