User Generated Content

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• Is Online Collaboration Helping Us Get Smarter?

  
  Brendan Hughes — Authority: 405
  Listening to Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia speak in Dublin this week, I found myself wondering whether all the content that is being created in collaborative online projects is actually enhancing the store of human knowledge. Wikipedia - "the sum of all human knowledge" Is the wisdom of the crowd really ...
  13 hours ago

• We deserve better commodity information

  
  Open IT Strategies — Authority: 124
  It’s no news that Wikipedia, with all its flaws, is the default information source of a generation of skulls full of mush. If this wasn’t obvious enough from my college students, it was brought home a week ago when interviewing FLL robotics contestants (ages 9-14), when nearly all said their project ...
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• All about Eid

  
  Our Take on Your Take — Authority: 107
  This week, both the Reuters Pictures wire and the submissions to Your View were dominated by pictures of the Muslim festival of sacrifice, Eid al-Adha. This photo from Saad Shahriar in Bangladesh clearly captures the desperation some people feel to get home to celebrate the festival with friends and family. Saad ...
  2 days ago

• UGC can promote greater media democracy

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 512
  The term User Generated conflict may have fallen by the wayside apart from in journalism schools but the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA)has produced a set of guidelines for broadcasters wishing to work with the medium. They can be downloaded as a PDF One issue that it brings to the fore is that of its ...
  3 days ago

• Curmudgeons Unite!

  
  E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez — Authority: 402
  As I have mentioned in a previous blog post , while I have been on holidays over the last couple weeks, totally disconnected from everything online, unwinding and re-charging batteries, I have also had plenty of time to rethink how I am effectively making use of various different social software tools, both ...
  3 days ago

• Will You Unearth the Holy Grail of Digital Out-of-Home?

  
  Digital Signage Insights — Authority: 125
  The holy grail of digital out-of-home media hasnt been unearthed yet . The pieces are out there. They are just lying in wait. An industry-defining company must seize the opportunity to mix the full gamut of media sector technological advancements with the advertising reach the platform affords. It must be done in a ...
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• Needed: SMB Testers for Marchex Rep. Tool

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 535
  Marchex has a terrific reputation management platform and tool , which I wrote about here and here . From my earlier post: The tool can be used to determine where business listings exist online and how consistent and complete they are; but it’s most valuable, as the name suggests, to track reviews and what’s ...
  5 days ago

• Do Seattle Startups Care Too Much About Retail, Too Little About Building a Huge Audience?

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 702
  startups , Internet , community Gregory T. Huang wrote: Oh no you didn’t . Come on, Andrew Chen, you know better than to call out Seattle tech startups for not producing a world-changing consumer Internet company in the past few years. You’re an outsider now, having left Seattle for the San ...
  6 days ago

• Google’s Local (Mobile) Coupon Move

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 535
  Google’s going to include coupons in mobile distribution of local business information on Place Pages. I’ve written up the announcement on Internet2Go : Google has had a big opportunity in local coupons that it has largely neglected perhaps until now. But now Google is making a push into  mobile distribution ...
  6 days ago

• Volunteers Log off as Wikipedia AgesWikipedia.org is the...

  
  Xoai's Log — Authority: 426
  Volunteers Log off as Wikipedia Ages Wikipedia.org is the fifth-most-popular Web site in the world, with roughly 325 million monthly visitors. But unprecedented numbers of the millions of online volunteers who write, edit and police it are quitting.
  6 days ago

• Augmented Reality – The New Reality?

  
  The Marketing Consigliere — Authority: 112
  Using a virtual to real-world conversion mechanism, the location of Second Life avatars is converted to locations on the map of The Hague. Carrying a GPS device, a group of walking tour participants will explore the real-life manifestation of the virtual world, interacting with the avatars in their vicinity. (Creative ...
  6 days ago

• The Future is Waving at You

  
  Beaconfire Wire — Authority: 112
  The future is here, and its name is Wave. Not really… but the much anticipated Google Wave has arrived in “preview” mode. When Google says “preview,” they mean “we can’t call it beta yet”, and it’s available through a limited number of invitations to people who are willing to deal with lots of bugs ...
  6 days ago

• Be Wary of User Contributed Notes - Brandon Savage

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  This morning, I was reviewing the weekly list of topics with the most comments throughout the PHP manual, and I stumbled upon the following code in the documentation for the date() function. This code is designed to tell you the day of the week for any valid date you give it: read more
  1 week ago

• Be Wary of User Contributed Notes

  
  BrandonSavage.net — Authority: 415
  This morning, I was reviewing the weekly list of topics with the most comments throughout the PHP manual, and I stumbled upon the following code in the documentation for the date() function. This code is designed to tell you the day of the week for any valid date you give it: $today_utc){ $future_date=1; ...
  1 week ago

• The News, Brought to You Today by… Everyone

  
  Brendan Hughes — Authority: 405
  It has been an interesting week in Ireland, when the passion of football and the reality of flooding provided a distraction from the economic crisis and upcoming budget. It has been an interesting week also in watching these news stories unfold in new ways. The elite class of journalists and media hacks are being ...
  1 week ago

• Polluting the Social Graph

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 535
  Many people have been thinking and working for some time to find a way to get friends and so-called influencers to advertise on behalf of companies or promote corporate messages to their followers or networks. The idea is to find a mechanism or system to mimic word of mouth at scale, using existing social networks for ...
  1 week ago

• Social Media Content

  
  Webmetricsguru - Web Metrics - Social Media Metrics - PR Metrics — Authority: 492
  Was thinking about a post I read in Marketing Pilgrim this morning about viral videos and original content where, I think, one of the most fundamental aspects of social media was discussed (http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/11/cup-of-joe-how-not-to-go-viral-and-look-like-an-idiot.html) I’m on my iPhone at ...
  1 week ago

• Picturing pain

  
  Our Take on Your Take — Authority: 107
  Empathy is not always an easy emotion to bring out in viewers but this picture from Farzana Hossen of a woman reacting to a fire that destroyed her home in a slum in Bangladesh certainly brought it out in me. Farzana’s use of black and white seems to emphasis the woman’s face and grief. View this week’s Your ...
  1 week ago

• ‘What’s Happening?’: Twitter’s Geo-API ‘Huge’

  
  Screenwerk — Authority: 535
  Twitter’s COO Dick Costolo said this morning at the TechCrunch CrunchUp event that he felt the “geo opportunity” was “huge.” The location-stamping or geocoding of content and the release of that data to third parties (online and in mobile) will unleash a wide range of creative applications and expressions ...
  1 week ago

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