http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/reviews/nowpubliccom-the-wikipedia-of-news As Sweet As Bitter Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:32:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/reviews/nowpubliccom-the-wikipedia-of-news#comment-7576 sugarenia.com - Web Standards, Accessibility & other Girly Stuff » Blog Archive » Me, News and Newsvine Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:54:03 +0000 http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives//nowpubliccom-the-wikipedia-of-news#comment-7576 [...] Then it’s the functionalities : name one news application functionality that Newsvine does not support. Tags, blogs, real-time news contribution, everything. I already liked NowPublic.com (which recently had a redesign – still using tables, though) but Newsvine is another league all on its own. [...] [...] Then it’s the functionalities : name one news application functionality that Newsvine does not support. Tags, blogs, real-time news contribution, everything. I already liked NowPublic.com (which recently had a redesign – still using tables, though) but Newsvine is another league all on its own. [...]

]]> http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/reviews/nowpubliccom-the-wikipedia-of-news#comment-23 zeevveez Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:59:58 +0000 http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives//nowpubliccom-the-wikipedia-of-news#comment-23 You say: "The idea behind Wikipedia is, somehow, the old and neglected “give the power to the masses” idea". Here is my comment to this: Wikipedia is considered to be a classic Web 2.0 tool because it is a peer production, because it has an open code and because it is open for every user to edit. It shatters the unique honored status of the encyclopedian and gives each one of us the opportunity to say: hey! I wrote an entry! But there is one crucial aspect in which Wikipedia is old fashioned Web 1.0 and that's the macro-content structure of the articles. Each article has a beginning and an end, premises and conclusions, an old-encyclopedia style flow. Mini-QTpedia (http://qtsaver.blogspot.com/2005/12/mini-qtpedia.html) is going to change all that. It will take relevant excerpts from few articles and put them on the same page. In case a keyword is shared by many articles it will bring all the contexts in which it appears. The user will have no clue how the design of these excerpts looked on Wikipedia, were there pictures? Were there headings? Were there suggestions for further research? even the name of the Wikipedian will disappear and in order to find out all these elements the user will have to use the link that heralds each QTpedia excerpt. You say:
“The idea behind Wikipedia is, somehow, the old and neglected “give the power to the masses” idea”. Here is my comment to this:
Wikipedia is considered to be a classic Web 2.0 tool because it is a peer production, because it has an open code and because it is open for every user to edit. It shatters the unique honored status of the encyclopedian and gives each one of us the opportunity to say: hey! I wrote an entry!
But there is one crucial aspect in which Wikipedia is old fashioned Web 1.0 and that’s the macro-content structure of the articles. Each article has a beginning and an end, premises and conclusions, an old-encyclopedia style flow. Mini-QTpedia (http://qtsaver.blogspot.com/2005/12/mini-qtpedia.html)
is going to change all that. It will take relevant excerpts from few articles and put them on the same page. In case a keyword is shared by many articles it will bring all the contexts in which it appears. The user will have no clue how the design of these excerpts looked on Wikipedia, were there pictures? Were there headings? Were there suggestions for further research? even the name of the Wikipedian will disappear and in order to find out all these elements the user will have to use the link that heralds each QTpedia excerpt.

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