Blogs became big

Interesting. Further evidence that New Journalism is here to stay.

Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio

You gotta love this.  I suspect we haven’t heard the last about Wikipedia.  The beauty of all this is that the open source community is keeping the open source advocates honest.

Wikipedia: a portal for malicious postings?

Anyone who follows New Media journalism should be alarmed by this story accusing Wikipedia of propagating slander. For those who do not know, Wikipedia is an online “encyclopedia” of entries that are submitted by anonymous posters. Ostensibly, inaccurate entries are quickly corrected or deleted. Uh, not so much says John Seigenthaler. Excerpt:

A false Wikipedia ‘biography’

By John Seigenthaler

“John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to
Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960’s. For a brief time,
he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy
assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever
proven.”

— Wikipedia

This is a highly personal story about Internet character assassination. It could be your story.

I have no idea whose sick mind conceived the
false, malicious “biography” that appeared under my name for 132 days
on Wikipedia, the popular, online, free encyclopedia whose authors are
unknown and virtually untraceable.