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Daily Archives: Sunday, December 10, 2006
Advice to marketers: Never use the term consumer-generated photos
How’s this for ironic timing. As a joke I called an earlier post “I’ve just posted some user-generated content on Flickr” that linked to photos from strolling around Manhattan this afternoon. In Monday’s New York Times there’s a story about … Continue reading
Google Earth mashed up with Wikipedia, etc.
From the official Google blog: “The new Geographic Web layer we released today (takes) the rich data of Wikipedia, Panoramio, and the Google Earth Community and (makes) a browsable layer in Google Earth. Now you can fly anywhere in the … Continue reading
I’ve just posted some user-generated-content on Flickr
Photos from the Nashville blogger ‘meat-up’ yesterday and from strolling around mid-town Manhattan today. Related posts: SXSW Panel notes: User generated content and original editorial: friend or foe Who exactly came up with the term ‘user-generated content’? A term worse … Continue reading
Titans hunting in Manhattan
I went to the blogger ‘meat-up’ in Nashville yesterday afternoon, but haven’t yet been able to post the photos I took due to some technical problems related to forgetting my handy bag of random wires when I headed out to … Continue reading
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Who exactly came up with the term ‘user-generated content’?
(From the NY Times article: “2006, Brought to You by You,” by Jon Pareles) “All that material is “user-generated content,” the paramount cultural buzz phrase of 2006. It’s a term that must appeal to the technocratic instincts of investors. I … Continue reading
