Wikipedia () is a great knowledge base, containing tons of text and lots of photos, but it’s lacking when it comes to videos, which are, well, quite scarce. This is all going to change in a couple of months, as Wikipedia has big plans for video; both in the sense of having more videos on the site, and letting contributors edit and annotate the actual videos. (more…)

“I’m sure some publishers will have some objections to something like this but (at the same time) many traditional publishers also objected to blogs.”

via Google’s Latest Ambition: A Universal Commenting System For The Web | paidContent.

Journalism has always been about reporting facts and assertions and making sense of world affairs. No news there. But as we move further into the 21st century, we will have to increasingly rely on “data” to feed our stories, to the point that “data-driven reporting” becomes second nature to journalists.

via Journalism Needs Data in 21st Century.