user generated content
Twitpic's attempted copyright grab? Paid Members Public
Twitpic becomes the latest in a long line of web companies playing fast and loose with their users’ copyright: > The first part highlighted is a clause seemingly denying anyone who uploads a picture to Twitpic the media exploitation rights for that picture; it specifically targets those businesses who might
The new trusted sources Paid Members Public
Really nice summation of the problem with the “people will always turn to trusted brands” idea [http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2010-10-29/the-future-of-publishing-like-minds] that many people in traditional media companies cling to as their hope for survival: > The community gathers around its self-created experts, and with little cost structure
news:rewired - Involving Users in Projects #newsrw Paid Members Public
Warning: Liveblogging – errors and typos likely iVillage – Lulu Phongmany: Been around for 10 years without really talking to the community about what they wanted. Very different issues drive success in message boards as opposed to content. Content seems tool-based, forums more around mutual support issues. Food site relaunch: Editors and
news:rewired:reviewed Paid Members Public
It has been a funny old week, as the lazy, journalistic cliché goes. This time last week, I was telling myself for the third afternoon in a row that I’d do my slides for news:rewired [http://www.newsrewired.com/] tomorrow, and now they’ve spent the best part
news:rewired Crowdsourcing Paid Members Public
So, onto other people’s panels, and I’ve plumped for the crowd-sourcing one, as I’m not local enough for the local panel and not clever enough for the data-mashing one… The speakers have placed very heavy emphasis on the verification process, from Demotix looking at information contained within
Afternoon Tea Reading 12th Jan 2010 Paid Members Public
The renaming just for Martin (blog [http://www.itsdevelopmental.com/], twitter [http://twitter.com/martincouzins]) who asked if I ever drank tea… - [News International starting to block paid-for aggregators from crawling its sites](http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-news-int.-will-also-block-sun-online-notw.co.uk-from-newsnow/). The paywall cometh… - [Which Flip should
Publishing in the Flow Paid Members Public
Nice summary of the key concept so many people from traditional media are struggling to understand [http://neilperkin.typepad.com/only_dead_fish/2009/10/we-applied-the-lens-of-advertising-interuptive-message-based-to-new-media-instead-we-should-apply-the-lens-of-new-medi.html] from Neil Perkin: > *Jason and Gareth talk about the flow of information over time: “ideas as unfolding stories, a stream of iterations