NowPublic Takes Top Spot on User-Generated News Article

In an article about citizen journalism on Wednesday, the Canadian Press gave NowPublic top dibs. " "I am no longer going to look at the news because it's something historical and something I want to see," said...

John McCain Relaunches His Social Network. It’s Surprisingly Good.

I just came across this and it surprised me too. Personally speaking, McCain's previous site sucked. It wasn't worth the effort going on there because, well, it was unnavigable. But the new one is better and is...

User-Made Games Will Make it to Xbox Live

I'm sure we'll be seeing more of this sort of thing, but right now Microsoft is the only gaming console offering users the chance to put their own games online - and keep most of the profits.With the market penetration Microsoft has (they sold over 500 million items over the...

User-Generated Content Services and Copyright Issues

"Cannes, France-- Could you be arrested for uploading my film or clip on the internet? India Eu Film Initiative (www.iefilmi.com) brings you a fascinationg debate on the content that you as an ordinary user of the...

User-generated content leading to new jobs in news organizations

As the multimedia news streams grows and content supplied by "users" becomes part of the news, new jobs are popping up. The latest is "group multimedia editor" for the Glasgow Herald, says Editors Weblog: "John Young, former picture editor of the Glasgow Evening Times, will...

YouTube Video Awards: And The Nominees Are....

Apparently the Y-Tube chose nominees by considering videos "that really will stand out and over time". But I wonder what that means anymore. Water cooler chatter now seems to happen, increasingly, in a minute to...

Animate Radiohead's Rainbows for Video Contest

Sounds like Thom & the boys are hoping for a user-gen gem that can rival the lo-fi brilliance of 'Paranoid Android'.Any takers?"TBD Records, Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and animation Web portal Aniboom.com...

Report: CNN citizen journalism site close to launch

"CNN is close to expanding its "iReport" user-generated reporting initiative into a separate Web site, MediaWeek wrote Monday. The new site, to be hosted at iReport.com, will be a repository for user-submitted news content--video, audio, and photos. Visitors can navigate...

YouTube is more popular than Facebook or Wikipedia

YouTube, the video-sharing website, is now the most popular user-generated site in the UK after attracting 10.4 million people in January.

Current TV Network Files For $100M IPO

"Innovative but unproven": perhaps the most concise and perfect definition of the entire new media/web 2.0/user-gen/social medial landscape."Current Media, the parent company of Current TV and Current.com, has...

Die Speech Bubble Logo, Die.

Stop the insanity.  Stop it now!"It’s frothy out there in web round 2, assuming we’re in round 2, and all those bubbles really add to the effect. Each day, I see more than one new speech bubble logo....

User-generated site lands $10.6M in funding

Len revealed our plans to spend the cash on Canada AM today..."A Vancouver-based Internet company is aiming to become the world's largest news agency by leveraging the content created by regular people all over...

Media gurus: User-generated content a big threat

The employers of the 3% of the executives mentioned below who believe that user generated content is a fad may want to take the severance package and start shopping for a timeshare in Cabo."User-generated content is one of the media and entertainment industries' biggest...

BBC in user-gen content shocker

"You might think it's just the users that produce user-generated content, but not so. The BBC has wobble-cam piece on YouTube about how it deal with submissions from users. Someone very sarcastically commented that it "just shows that you have to have quality to cut through...

YouTube blocked in Thailand: clip mocks revered king

UPDATE: There may be hope for YouTube--apparently the King has pardoned a Swiss man who was charged with defacing pictures of the King during the 60th Anniversary of his rule last December. The man, who is a...

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