Cool way to handle corrections online
Business 2.0 used a really interesting correction technique this week. After some details in a story about Arianna Huffington starting a new online site turned out to be untrue, the site didn't simply delete the inaccurate information and post a correction, as most would do. Business 2.0 crossed out the inaccurate text digitallly and then put an editor's note below explaining why. Here's what it looked like:
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1 comments about 'Cool way to handle corrections online'I think there are plenty of examples where this has been done before: I know that Rebecca Blood does it on her blog.
I don't like this style. Perhaps because I have too many corrections to make-- which is partly because I am lacking a team of fact-checkers, but also because I see myself writing normatively (as Wiki does as well). So I just don't like leaving in wrong information in, crossed out or not. I have also put a link to my corrections policy on every page.
Posted by Jon Garfunkel at March 30, 2005 10:39 PM
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1 Weblogs reference 'Cool way to handle corrections online' Uncommonly accurate.Trackback excerpt: Business 2.0 found some inaccurate information in a story and corrected it in their online edition in a rather unique way, clearly admitting the error:It was bound to happen. The idea is too obvious and the potential too great to... [Read More]
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