SubscribeFinding a successful User Created Content formula
Posted in Citizen Journalism, News on February 19th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Ideas such as “User Generated Content”, “We the Media” or “Citizen Reporterism”, as powerful as they are, and as well as they match what we understand the Internet to be, haven’t been truly successful with traditional media. What’s wrong?
The following two articles highlight a couple of ideas of what might be happening. At their core, the articles are about truly understanding what people generated contents are, why they are created in the first place and why they should be treated traditionally created contents regarding basic things such as content authorship recognition and compensation. In this regard, the Associated Press plan on Citizen Journalism is much better than Reuters and Yahoo’s “You Witness”.
User Generated Content isn’t free (CyberJournalist)
One thing everyone forgets about “We Media” (The Long Tail)
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