QUOTE(Selina @ Tue 17th March 2009, 7:57am)
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I think proper news organisations can capitalise from the web still - I think most people realise that bloggers can be just about anyone (competitors, marketers) masquerading, there's no oversight, so there's never going to be people getting all their news from blogs.
Newspapers just need to become web-papers that's it really (IMG:
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I think
BBC News is the best example of news moving to the web though just about every paper publishes it's articles online now too; telegraph.co.uk guardian.co.uk dailymail.co.uk etcetc
There are lots of online journals, many of them free, and there is nothing about moving to a new medium that forced any of them to start using Phony Name Authors with Multiple Personality Disorders or ArbClowns instead of Editors. Those debasements of accountability are bad habits that Wikipedia imported from Usenet and Chatville in general.
The website and newsletter of the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) are good resources for following developments in the Open Access movement.
http://www.arl.org/sparc/http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-09.htmJon