Chile pepper recipe bookOriginally uploaded by charlotteanne.lucas What if you give away the polished and edited content, but then put a price tag on the user-generated content? People will buy it. Those of us who have solicited so-called user-generated content know that there’s just about nothing more popular than people’s own stuff. The numbers are…
J.D. Lasica has a very interesting post here from a session at the Aspen Institute and San Francisco State University’s Roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement. He poses the notion of a “posse” of collaborators who could use Twitter to send questions to a reporter who is covering a news event. It sounds like…
What’s Happening Cover Originally uploaded by Something To See Thanks to Facebook and LinkedIn, I’ve been stumbling across a bunch of not-so-old friends, people I haven’t seen in many, many moons. Many of them have gone on to do wonderful things while I was in another time zone, doing something else. That’s the case with…
Students in my Digital Storytelling class zoomed into the prime time blogosphere this week, providing live, multimedia coverage of the Democratic presidential debate and the accompanying mayhem at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Besides making more than 150 posts to the UNLV Presidential Debate 2007 blog, many of the students published audio, photos and…
Easy for him to say. Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA Dallas Mavericks and a net worth north of $2 billion, also happens to be a blogger. So when he came to speak at the BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas, a couple hundred bloggers showed up and listened up. Cuban said a lot of provocative…
The Project for Excellence in Journalism just released a nice summary of the content on user-driven news sites Reddit, Digg and Del.icio.us, but I think the authors of the report missed the point. The report found little or no overlap between the stories that were pushed to the top of the page on the user-driven…
OK, so we screwed up. By we I mean the people such as me who were running news Websites. When we did it, you rightfully hated it. What’s remarkable is that Facebook is doing it and you love it so much you can’t get enough of it. And I think it has some tremendous —…
The other day I found something extremely cool hidden in plain view on Facebook, something that may spell more gloom for online newspaper classifieds, and which might even take a chunk out of eBay and Craigslist. I found myself in possession of two extra puppies, thanks so some lout who dumped them in our yard…