Comments on: UGC: BusinessWeek misses the point http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/11/20/ugc-businessweek-misses-the-point/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:47:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Are we putting the blame on the user now? « Alexander van Elsas’s Weblog on new media & technologies and their effect on social behavior http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/11/20/ugc-businessweek-misses-the-point/#comment-335879 Are we putting the blame on the user now? « Alexander van Elsas’s Weblog on new media & technologies and their effect on social behavior Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:35:40 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/11/20/ugc-businessweek-misses-the-point/#comment-335879 [...] Mathew Ingram pointed me to a Business Week article in which it is said that User Generated Content is dead. The article even has a confronting title “Web video: move over amateurs”. Evidence from this bold statement came from examples where specific USG sites were closing down due to limited amounts of traffic. People now want professional content. [...] [...] Mathew Ingram pointed me to a Business Week article in which it is said that User Generated Content is dead. The article even has a confronting title “Web video: move over amateurs”. Evidence from this bold statement came from examples where specific USG sites were closing down due to limited amounts of traffic. People now want professional content. [...]

]]> By: vanelsas http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/11/20/ugc-businessweek-misses-the-point/#comment-340775 vanelsas Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:49:01 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/11/20/ugc-businessweek-misses-the-point/#comment-340775 Hi Mathew, I think you are right about Business Week missing the point. But to add to your arguments I would say that UCG is about emotions. Nothing as powerful as a user creating something and sharing it with the world. It is all around us and although the quality isn't always great, we tend to look beyond that as we can almost feel the intention of the creator. That is waht makes user generated content fascinationg. <br>As an example in an industry under fire. I think the music industry should stop thinking in terms of distributiong music (and sueing illigal downloaders) and start thinking in terms of distribution of emotions (thus embracing users and challenging them to add content to the music made by professionals). Hi Mathew, I think you are right about Business Week missing the point. But to add to your arguments I would say that UCG is about emotions. Nothing as powerful as a user creating something and sharing it with the world. It is all around us and although the quality isn't always great, we tend to look beyond that as we can almost feel the intention of the creator. That is waht makes user generated content fascinationg.
As an example in an industry under fire. I think the music industry should stop thinking in terms of distributiong music (and sueing illigal downloaders) and start thinking in terms of distribution of emotions (thus embracing users and challenging them to add content to the music made by professionals).

]]> By: Tech For Novices http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/11/20/ugc-businessweek-misses-the-point/#comment-340774 Tech For Novices Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:32:28 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/11/20/ugc-businessweek-misses-the-point/#comment-340774 yes mathew & krishnan - you guys are right yes mathew & krishnan - you guys are right

]]> By: krishnan http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/11/20/ugc-businessweek-misses-the-point/#comment-340773 krishnan Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:31:32 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/11/20/ugc-businessweek-misses-the-point/#comment-340773 Does business week think that big publications offer great content? I think they should check out this insanely dumb article on WSJ<br><br><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2007/11/05/google-phone-a-business-tech-nightmare-waiting-to-happen/">http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2007/11/05/google-...</a> Does business week think that big publications offer great content? I think they should check out this insanely dumb article on WSJ

http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2007/11/05/google-...

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