Users vs Editors: A case study
Rather than actually conducting a case study, there’s a rather easier way to compare ‘pure’ User Generated Content with some that has been edited, and the effect on accuracy, trust, and audience...
View ArticleThree web 2.0 sites. Three opinions.
I’ve been playing around with a few sites recently. Here’s some quick off-the-cuff thoughts. www.mahalo.com : Human powered search engine. It’s a nice concept, to get search results filtered by someone...
View ArticleDon’t swap journalists for users quite yet…
User generated content (UGC), citizen journalism, blogging. I’m a huge fan of all three when used correctly, but they all need to be handled with care by traditional media companies, whether it’s not...
View ArticleGetting paid to play… social networking for cash…
A new social network site is offering to pay users for taking part. Yuwie aims to reward users for activity and referring more friends to the network, taking inspiration from old-style pyramid schemes....
View ArticleContributing to the internet for more than just recognition…
I’ve had several conversations about user generated content with my colleague and fellow blogger David Cushman (and you can read his take here.) Any online submission or rating system needs to have...
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Max Gogarty and The Guardian – From mistake, to farce, to learning
I was ready to lay into The Guardian again, as the whole Max Gogarty controversy seemed to be missing the basic point of blogging. Besides the issues of nepotism, and class, the controversy would have...
View ArticleAbout the community, by the community
Here’s a good example of changing the way we do things, by the always interesting Neil Perkin at Only Dead Fish, from an idea by the also always interesting Herdmeister. And like most good ideas, it’s...
View ArticleBit late in sharing this brilliance – perfect for a Friday
I’ve seen this posted elsewhere (Hat tip to Rax and Dave) but it’s too good not to share on the off-chance you haven’t seen it. It’s a lovely Flash app monitoring stats on social media compiled...
View ArticleNot sure how to monetise your eyeballs?
While newspaper and magazine owners are still trying to decide whether or not they should aim for eyeballs or paywalls, there are several other companies who are happy to take up the challenge. For...
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Everyone’s a curator now…
We’ve talked for years about citizen journalism and self-publishing, but more important than the channels of distribution are the ways in which content and context are discoved via search engines and...
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