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isaiahwordsmith

A conversation

May 01, 2009 10:07

I miss the days when I could just sit around with friends and shoot the shit. Now we're all working or caught up in our own lives. But today I said "hell with it" to the job long enough to respond to something Chris put on Facebook ( Read more... )

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emessar May 1 2009, 23:23:50 UTC

I think that there's a wide range of what falls into the broad term of user-generated content. It ranges from the random comment or smiley face on a blog post, to well thought out, labored, crafted content.

You Tube, mentioned before, is a good example of the range of what "content" can be. I've seen posts that were nothing more than a picture the person didn't take paired with music they didn't make. On the other hand I've seen well crafted, original, scripted videos with original footage, music, etc.

And that's not to say that everything that's laboriously crafted is good either. Sometimes you have to click through a lot of monkeys on typewriters before you find the one with a stack of Shakespeare.

In short, I think that user-generated content is only as important as the content that's being created.

isaiahwordsmith May 2 2009, 00:52:10 UTC

That's the thing. I define "content" as something which provides real information or adds to the whole. Smilies or "D00d this r0xX0rz" are not content. They're just cruft, barnacles on the ship of ideas ( ... )

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