Wikipedia and CNN.com
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Todd Huffman
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Wikipedia is my site of choice for current events, I love it when I see the "This article documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses."
So, I am noticing CNN's audience volume is fairly static. Could it be wikipedia is engaging a new audience that previously did not engage in the daily news? How many consumers of wikipedias current events previously did not regularly consume the news, but are getting sucked in after using wikipedia in a more encyclopedia-like style?
When it comes to current events Wikipedia also has a huge first mover advantage, all the hip kids are going to blue waters of wikipedia, where CNN has to battle for old-schoole customers with the likes of LA Times, NY Times, MSNBC, CNET, et cetera. The closest competition W'pedia has for current events are blogs and digg-a-likes, which have much less utility in terms of finding specific information and suffer from an even greater peception of unreliability.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )