Disappointing...
5 stars and a gold trophy for making an excellent point go to Dragonfire1024. I couldn't agree with you more if I was paid to agree with you. There were much better places to do this, Wikinews is not part of the blogosphere, and although done well, was done entirely in the wrong place. While stuff is happening elsewhere, we basically turned into a twitter feed. Volunteer or not, we're a news site, not a blog. If it'd been done as a news article, maybe not such a bad idea.
And so the Guardian, Metro, Channel 4 News, Telegraph, BBC, Independent, Sydney Morning Herald, Scotsman and NPR are also not news websites? I've said it before and I'll say it again: the live blog was a test for a new format which I thought would be more inventive than a simple article. If the community says they don't want me doing it again, I won't do it again.