Blogging and WikiNews Joi just tipped me off to an #irc chat about how wikinews and bloggers can work together (here's the transcript). Joi writes about it here but basically Wikinews is a wiki based news source and working better with bloggers is an obvious direction for them to take. A lot was discussed including trackbacks, RSS feeds, autoposting, tags, and IMing tips to wikipedians. There's still a long way to go but this could be a great step for everyone involved - If bloggers start linking to WikiNews stories more people will read wikinews, if wikinews starts reading blogs they will get info on stories much faster than waiting for other sources. The more people reading wikinews, the more people who will contribute, which makes the site better, which makes more people link to it, etc. It will be interesting to see where this goes. UPDATE: This blog has been set up to show new stories on wikinews and includes an Atom feed and trackbacks. I'm subscribing to it now and we'll see if I can't make some use out of it.