Wikipedia is really doing a good job
Shelly is mad [again], probably because Scoble posted three pages of blog-related London bombing links and the general buzz about how great the Wikipedia article was. She writes,
Now is not the time to point to each other, almost in joy, because, to paraphrase, “we’re covering the story better than the BBC”.
I’d like to think of the blog coverage and the incident as disjoint. We bloggers should be proud to have covered this event as well as we did. As a large-scale bombing is significant, so we should be all the more proud to report on it well. Doesn’t it make sense that we’re proud of our work, because this is important work? It doesn’t matter when Bill Gates spouts another anti-OSS comment–so what if we’re great journalists then. But when the world erupts in tragedy and we get it right? That’s great work.
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Elliott — Minor correction: Scoble actually linked to the equally great Wikinews article (not Wikipedia).