User-Generated Content (UGC)
Blog comments and forum posts represent a portion of the Web's user-generated content, but social media sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), Web-based services (Twitter) and some retailers (Amazon) also provide outlets for UGC. Many Web 2.0 companies try to harness user-generated content as a means of developing community, aggregating data and reaching critical mass as communication and information platforms.
TOC Stories Referencing User Generated Content
Second "Open Feedback" Title Now Online
Over on the O'Reilly Labs blog, Keith Fahlgren talks about the latest title to go live in our Open Feedback Publishing System, which gives authors and readers a way to...Four roles for publishers: staying relevant when you are no longer a gatekeeper
In many areas of publishing, there are enormous resources of free online material and innumerable forums where individuals can quickly and conveniently post their own observations. Since we are no longer gatekeepers, publishers have to focus on how we add quality.New on O'Reilly Labs: Open Feedback Publishing System
O'Reilly engineer Keith Fahlgren has formally launched our new Open Feedback Publishing System over on O'Reilly Labs: Over the last few years, traditional publishing has been moving closer to the..."Bite-Size Edits" from BookOven
Hugh McGuire's startup BookOven has opened up an alpha version of a project they're calling the Gutenberg Rally, an attempt to harness collective intelligence Mechanical-Turk style to proofread Project Gutenberg...Taxonomies and Starting With XML
This is an excerpt from a blog post I wrote last week on taxonomies and chunking. Last October, the StartWithXML team wrote a post called "To Chunk or Not To...Conversation is the New King
Kate Eltham calls out publishers who blog through a PR lens and points the way to publisher blogs that fully embrace the medium: It used to be common wisdom...[TOC Webcast] Social Media for Publishers
Tools of Change for Publishing will host "Social Media for Publishers," a free webcast with presenter Chris Brogan, on Tuesday, Dec. 16 at 1 p.m. eastern (10 a.m. pacific)....A Correction!
Frank Grazioli, of Wiley, writes in to correct my last post about taxonomies: Wiley has been exploring taxonomies for its travel content business; the cooking/psych/accounting spaces might be our next...Publishers Need to Get In on the Conversation
Kassia Krozser has a Cluetrain-like manifesto for publishers. From Booksquare: It's time to get your hands dirty, to dig into the real-world conversation. It's a weird thing, and sometimes...Why Blogging and Social Media Shouldn't be Ignored
Consistent blogging and Web-based interaction often fall by the wayside when other projects demand attention, but venture capitalist Fred Wilson makes a compelling argument for keeping connectivity on the...Redefining Professional Content and Accepting Digital's Limitations
Scott Karp's 10 observations about the future of media inspired a few thoughts on the shifting definition of "professional" and the limitations of digital.Tagging the Real World through Barcode Apps
Mobile phones with barcode apps bring digital tools into real-world curation.Beyond the Tag Cloud
This is an excerpt from our research paper, which will publish in concert with the StartWithXML Forum on January 13th at the McGraw-Hill Auditorium in New York. Early bird discounting...Open Source, Community and Audiobooks: Q&A with LibriVox Founder Hugh McGuire
LibriVox is a volunteer effort with a big goal: record audiobook editions for every title in the public domain. In this Q&A, LibriVox founder Hugh McGuire discusses the project's beginnings, the organic development of the LibriVox community, and the distinctions (or lack thereof) between "professional" and "amateur" efforts.Web Publicity Grows Up, Learns the Value of Conversation
Web publicity works best when the audience is spoken with, not at.- Stay Connected
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