The innovative folks over at the Reuters Labs have just opened to the public a wiki glossary of financial terms. Ross Mayfield wrote a very philosophical post
about it today, though it uses Mediawiki and not Mayfield's SocialText software. He points out that the experiment is poised to avoid
the key mistake of the LA
Times editorial wiki because this one built a community of dedicated users behind a firewall before going
public. The question remains whether a glossary of terms is really well suited for a wiki format.So now Reuters has a wiki, the Washington Post uses Technorati to integrate blog posts linking to their online stories, and PR Newswire has del.icio.us baked in. Kinda makes the NYTimes paid subscriber firewall seem all the more ridiculous. Perhaps that's why a former NYTimes ombudsman said this week that he's concerned that blogs may soon overtake the mainstream media.
Anyone else have favorite examples of mainstream media integrating with Web 2.0?
1. The Ross Mayfield link points to the Reuters wiki rather than to http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2006/02/reuters_financi.html which is probably what's referred to.
Posted at 10:54PM on Feb 17th 2006 by kukkurovaca