The Randomness of History

This is a problem that has to be addressed, and what would be your thoughts here?:The Convoluted Life Cycle of a News Story | from the ok-let's-randomly-update-this-story dept. | posted by timothy on Sunday November 20, @16:26 (Social Networks) | with 56 comments | https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/20/2126237/the-convoluted-life-cycle-of-a-news-story?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [0]ideonexus writes "Once upon a time, newspapers were considered the "first draft of history." Today, rather than the daily episodic updates of major news stories developing a narrative over time, we have a perpetual stream of factoids from which a story emerges. Lauren Rabaino of mediabistro details this [1]new lifecycle of a newspaper story, from tweets to blog posts to an eventual print edition, and asks What are the best standards of practice? Should news sources provide a single web address with a stream of updates, post new blog entries that link to older ones, or should they adopt a Wiki approach to the news — revising a single story with a history of revisions available behind the scenes?" Discuss this story at: https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/20/2126237/the-convoluted-life-cycle-of-a-news-story?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting Links: 0. http://ideonexus.com/ 1. http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/the-new-convoluted-life-cycle-of-a-newspaper-story_b8552 Copyright 1997-2011, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved.