14 month ago
deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott / FUCK THE CLOUD - "Don’t blow anything into the Cloud that you don’t have a personal copy of. ... Insult, berate and make fun of any company that offers you something like a “sharing” site that makes you push stuff in that you can’t make copies out of or whi
wearehugh : ASCII by Jason Scott / FUCK THE CLOUD - "Insult, berate and make fun of any company that offers you something like a “sharing” site that makes you push stuff in that you can’t make copies out of or which you can’t export stuff out of. They will burble about technology issues. They
Rod Begbie : FUCK THE CLOUD - "If you lose your shit, the technogeeks will not help you. They will giggle at you and make fun of your not understanding the fundamental principles and engineering of client-server models." [via] #
philgyford : ASCII by Jason Scott / FUCK THE CLOUD - A follow-up to the previous link on why keeping your stuff on servers run by other companies is a recipe for trouble. I try to avoid this but some things, like Flickr, make me nervous. (via Blech)
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deusx : ASCII by Jason Scott / Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse - "A terrible thing happened recently. You might have missed it. AOL Hometown, which itself was actually a combination of a bunch of previously acquired websites, shut down. It shut down on October 31 of this year. If you try to go to a site that used
Andy Baio : Jason Scott on the closure of AOL's online communities - like physical evictions, there need to be laws protecting community data in the event of closure
Simon Willison : Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse - Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse. Jason Scott on AOL’s closure of Hometown, their hosting service. In related news, Lycos just announced they are closing Tripod, which has been providing free hosting for 13 years.
philgyford : ASCII by Jason Scott / Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse - Catching up on stuff... AOL Hometown shut down and wiped all its users' sites with four weeks' notice. It's bad enough when chunks of the web disappear, but worse like this. (via Simon Willison)
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17 month ago
deusx : Epeus' epigone: Not consumers or users, but amateurs - "We already have a word for people who create for the love of it, rather than being paid to, and it is 'amateurs'. As with many other pleasures, when we seek out opinions, we prefer those that flow from passion rather than from payment. No
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31 month ago
Richard Rutter : MIMOA - User generated guide to Modern Architecture in Europe.
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31 month ago
deusx : /Message: Twitter #Hashtags Backlash Begins - "Haven't even gotten #hashtags off the ground, and people already want them filtered."
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31 month ago
plasticbag : Should 'UGC' as a term be replaced by 'Indigenous content'? - Clay's post on this is highly entertaining and I love the idea. I may start using it in meetings and see what kinds of eyebrows I get.
deusx : User-generated neologism: "Indigenous content". Many-to-Many: - "Indigenous Content (which is to say “Created by the natives for themselves.”)"
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35 month ago
jimray : El Pais' citizen journalism page looks sharp - Yo! Periodista!
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37 month ago
jimray : Scoopt acquired by Getty Images - Looks like Getty is just going to buy a UGC play. Probably pretty smart for them, actually
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jimray : More on "Aftermix," Brightcove's Flex-based tool for editing video - I'm not entirely sure why you'd want to do this in a browser instead of iMovie, but looks pretty nifty
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37 month ago
Andy Baio : Evan Williams looking to sell Odeo - as Anil points out, Ev's freedom leads to interesting moves
Linkorama : Looking for Odeo's new home - prospectus by blog
jimray : Obvious is looking to sell Odeo - Could be a smart grab for some smart media company looking to leverage UGC...
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38 month ago
43folders : Santa Rosa TV station fires news staff, to ask local folks to provide programming - Cash-strapped news station asks viewers to directly contribute content (via cell phone video, etc.) as the station's primary source for local reporting.
jimray : Tonight at 11, news by neighbors - "Santa Rosa TV station fires news staff, to ask local folks to provide programming" Honestly, though, is that any worse than local TV coverage?
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38 month ago
jimray : KCNN: Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News?
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jimray : New York Times to begin experimenting with UG video - “The most expensive thing is the journalists themselves. That’s why user-generated content is interesting.â€
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38 month ago
jimray : Super fans: Readers' top fan photos - Shiny UGC thing, I built the frontend (still a few bugs, nothing critical)
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38 month ago
jimray : vMix - Yet another UGC play, this one's used by the LA Times and others
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38 month ago
jimray : Stephen Colbert is launching a UGC site for fake news - Send him your bogus tips and rumors!
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38 month ago
Andy Baio : SF Chronicle starts podcasting voicemails from angry readers - "pilotless airplane! pilotless airplane! drone, drone, drone!"
jimray : SF Chronicle starts podcasting angry voicemails - God, this is gonna be good
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38 month ago
jimray : For Local News Site, Model Just Didn't Click - On the demise of Backfence
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38 month ago
jimray : Brightcove Splits Ad Revenue With Creators - And they just got $60million in funding. Awaiting the collapse/consolidation in video sharing space in about 6 months
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40 month ago
jimray : Scoopt connects citizenjournalists with the media - Seems a bit sensationalist, but certainly worth watching. Appears to be mostly camera phone shots of celebs, so, huzzah to our future CJ overlords. Kill me now.
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40 month ago
jimray : Yahoo You Witness - Yahoo's UGC play. Clever name...
plasticbag : Yahoo! You Witness News is coming soon - I genuinely have no idea how this is going to manifest, but I'm certainly interested. Bubble-up news, citizen journalism and the like have had highly mixed success rates. Still, it's quite cool to see Yahoo leap into the fray...
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40 month ago
deusx : User-generated content embarrasses Michael Arrington - Valleywag - "An embarrassing moment, today, for Michael Arrington, at the >play digital media conference at Berkeley, when he called up a web page of comments deriding the panel he was moderating."
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fastclemmy : Semen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Semen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia by fastclemmy Take a look at the pics, now that's what I call User Generated Content!!! wiki ugc hotlinks Copy | React (0)
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