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Business Insider -- DOWN ON THE (CONTENT) FARM: Here's Why I Would Never Invest In Demand Media

'Demand contracts with thousands of freelancers to produce hundreds of thousands of pieces of low-quality content, the topics for which are chosen according to their search value, most of which are driven by Google. Because Google’s algorithm weights prolific and constant content over quality content, Google’s algorithm places Demand content high on their search engine result pages. Google search results drive enormous amounts of traffic to Demand’s sites, which Google is then happy to monetize for a hefty split of ad revenue. So, Demand creates the content cheaply; Google then sends free traffic to those pages; and then Google sells ads to those same users. Arbitrage defined. The worse the content the cheaper it is for Demand to produce and the more likely a visitor to that content is to click on a Google AdSense link as that is often the most compelling thing on the page. Demand’s content threatens the quality of the user experience on Google.'

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Rupert Murdoch to Ban Google?

'Mr. Murdoch added the fair-use doctrine, which allows for use of copyrighted materials "could be challenged in the courts and barred altogether." -- THE most powerful media titan is seriously considering severing the foundational cord of Western science and literacy to preserve his power base and his sponsors. Fair use is at the heart of the tradition of Western science and rational thought. If one cannot quote (or even reference) the thought and findings of others, then the conversation of literature and science virtually dies. All scientific research is referential, as is all academic study. What Murdoch is suggesting is a nightmare scenario where the courts will be empowered to decide, absent fair use, what constitutes a legal summary of a document, what constitutes appropriate vocabulary for that summary, etc. ...the result would be a legal mess that would take decades if not centuries for the West's tradition of scientific and academic thought to recover from.'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility Annex -- Filtering information to suit the self

Reminiscent of McLuhan's insight that people dress themselves in newspapers rather than read them. -- 'Information can now be a matter of facts, data, opinions, or retail purchases -- anything that could be deployed in signaling. The goal is not to become informed so much as to signal a tentative, tactical self in the marketplace of identity. Choice in informing oneself is now driven by the social-networking self (the self that can be ranked and archived and broadcast to ever-more people), which covertly serves the ends of the corporations that control those networks. Less important to be informed than to know the passwords to admission into chosen hierarchies structured in networks online.'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Authentic Listening: Are We Selling Out Our Tastes?

'If I put a bunch of tracks on an MP3 blog ... I’ve crossed the line into being a freelance marketer, a wannabe A&R person. I want strangers to applaud my taste under the auspices of “sharing.” -- It’s no better if I talk about my musical tastes on a social network—the context changes the relevance of what I am saying and my opinions can be aggregated and sold as demographic data, or could lead to my friends being hit with certain sorts of targeted ads. By the terms of service, my opinions become part of a commercial public record. Our intentions in listening will be harder and harder to keep pure; the temptations to sell our tastes out by blogging/tweeting/social network posting about them will continue to increase.'

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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Paul Graham -- Post-Medium Publishing

'When you see something that's taking advantage of new technology to give people something they want that they couldn't have before, you're probably looking at a winner. And when you see something that's merely reacting to new technology in an attempt to preserve some existing source of revenue, you're probably looking at a loser.'

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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The New York Observer -- Brand-tastic! Ben Silverman Might Look Back to Find Ad Models for the Future

'Consider Illeana Douglas’ Easy to Assemble, a Web show written and produced by Ms. Douglas, who stars as an Ikea worker trying to escape showbiz. Ikea signed on as a sponsor, and marketing head Magnus Gustafsson joined to oversee story lines and plot outlines. Yet, for the most part, they let Ms. Douglas do as she pleased, even poking a little fun at the store’s quirkiness. When she first told her friends she was going to make a Web show sponsored by Ikea, “it was very, very controversial with people,” she told The Observer. “People had no idea why I was doing this and asking why would I do this instead of doing a movie. I said, ‘Well, you know, Ikea is the 400th most viewed Web site in the world.’ Who cares about NBC and CBS, I said, if you can get them to show your show in an IKEA.”'

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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HBR -- The IKEA Effect

'Labor is not just a meaningful experience – it’s also a marketable one. ...labor enhances affection for its results. When people construct products themselves, from bookshelves to Build-a-Bears, they come to overvalue their (often poorly made) creations. We call this phenomenon the IKEA effect... We also investigated the limits of the IKEA effect, showing that labor leads to higher valuation only when the labor is fruitful: When participants failed to complete an effortful task, the IKEA effect dissipated. Our research suggests that consumers may be willing to pay a premium for do-it-yourself projects, but there’s an important caveat: Companies hoping to persuade their customers to assume labor costs – for example, by nudging them toward self-service through internet channels – should be careful to create tasks difficult enough to lead to higher valuation but not so difficult that customers can’t complete them.'

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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my6sense - your digital intuition

'my6sense brings the good stuff from your information streams. What's unique about our technology is that there's no need for you to set preferences or give any explicit feedback. The m6s system learns what's valuable to you by translating your consumption behaviour into a personalized ranking function. Not only that, it's a dynamic system - so the more you use it, the better it gets and delivers more relevant content.'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Your Digital Intuition

"Your digital intuition knows you and brings the stuff you want. You know, the good stuff." -- She's flexible and not demanding. You never have to give her any feedback, but she can show you interesting stuff you've never even thought about before. All you have to do is act naturally. (I think I can handle that.)

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Onion -- Study: Watching Fewer Than Four Hours Of TV A Day Impairs Ability To Ridicule Pop Culture

'"An hour or two of television per day simply does not provide enough information to effectively mock mediocre sitcoms, vapid celebrities, music videos, and talk-show hosts—an essential skill in modern society," said Dr. Madeleine Ben-Ami, a professor of cognitive science and chief author of the study. Ben-Ami said she and her colleagues fear that, if it is not corrected, television illiteracy could result in an American sub-group unable to function in the modern world. "Because the ridicule of pop culture comprises the bulk of today's social discourse, a non-viewer is at a distinct disadvantage in the workplace, on campus, and in the dating scene."'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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A VC -- What We Can Learn From Mess

Only real markets create mess -- 'The company has no marketers. To quote Gary again, "By eliminating marketing, sales, and business development, craigslist's programmers have cut out all the cushioning layers that separate them from the users they serve." -- "People are good and trustworthy and generally just concerned with getting through the day," Newmark says. If most people are good and their needs are simple, all you have to do to serve them well is build a minimal infrastructure allowing them to get together and work things out for themselves. Any additional features are almost certainly superfluous and could even be damaging. -- A system like Craigslist does result in a lot spam, fraud, and abuse. But it is also certainly the most efficient and cost effective way to make a market.' -- Pure data

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Muddy

'Muddy is an indexing and categorisation tool for use by people and companies with lots of content. Using information derived from Wikipedia, Muddy finds notable people, places and organisations in any webpage, and references them against other information sources. This helps you to categorise your content and to provide new navigation features on your website.'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Guardian -- User-generated content is only the beginning

'The paper is now offering user-generated advertising as a service and competence to its advertisers. -- Bild's partnering with readers is part of a trend that this paper's editor, Alan Rusbridger, is calling the "mutualisation of news". The separation between reporter and reader, he said, blurs as they work together. That is the future - and natural state - of media; collaboration not just in content creation, but now in advertising as well.'

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Brand Republic -- Ridley Scott unveils ad-funded UGC venture

'Ridley Scott is launching a project called Purefold that will harness user-generated content, RSA directors, scriptwriters and online aggregators to create brand-funded premium quality online TV programmes. Described as an open licence cross-platform franchise, Purefold works by scanning social networking sites for online conversations across all social media. These conversations are collated and the most highly rated can be used by brands as the basis for storylines that are fleshed out and rewritten by professional scriptwriters. The scripts are then turned into five-minute, high-quality web-based programmes directed by RSA directors from around the world. Once online, consumers can become involved with developing the storyline through talking or blogging about it. The most talked-about stories will be kept and further developed while the least talked-about will then be discarded.'

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBH Labs -- “An Epochal Debate over the Value of Content”

"In our new data-driven world, micropayments might begin to apply to how creative agencies are compensated as well. Creative and media will likely increasingly begin merging services, molding to a more performance-based system. This doesn’t need to adversely effect creativity though, since appealing to more sophisticated eyeballs might pay better than the blunderbuss approach. Watch for Labs to be dabbling in exactly these kinds of methods in the months ahead. We welcome further conversation by potentially interested partners and clients here."

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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New Statesman -- "We were so keen to believe that Web 2.0 would make the world fairer that we rejected all evidence to the contrary"

The "techno-utopian manifest destiny" of Wired magazine via MIT MediaLab pwnage: 'Negroponte was seeking a publicity vehicle for his “concept factory”, a novel business proposition spun out from the venerable Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Negroponte’s Media Lab didn’t trouble itself with boring engineering and scientific research – the empirical bedrock of technological innovation, which takes years to bear fruit. The Lab was designed to coax corporate sponsorship with attention-grabbing ideas. Few of the whimsical concepts from the Lab – furry alarm clocks that run away, “ambient furniture” – would ever be viable products, but they generated acres of newsprint. And the press coverage drew in the sponsorship. Negroponte sold the proposition that his whizz-kids knew the future, and if you, too, suspended disbelief, so could you. A new business had been created. Negroponte became [the magazine's] first investor, and his flagship guru. Wired magazine was born.' -- Content is kin!

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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BBC iPlayer -- Newswipe: Episode 2

'Charlie Brooker sets his satirical sights on news and current affairs. In charting the rise of the public's role in making the news via vox pops and mobile phone footage, Brooker examines the good, the bad and the absurd in citizen journalism. Plus, reviews of two big stories making the news, controversial authored pieces, a poem and much more.'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Pirate's Dilemma -- The Network is the Story

"Stories that include their audiences in the creation process become more complex, go off on tangents and create new relationships between the broadcaster and the audience. Giving the audience space to create their own stories within the broadcast story is a great way to create mass media. Instead of creating one story with broad enough appeal for a mass audience to find it palatable, it’s now possible to create a piece of mass media without much of a storyline at all, but instead, the tools the audience needs to create millions of their own, that they in turn can change and narrowcast to their peers. The audience knows what they need from narrowcast entertainment better than the broadcaster does, and they know the target audience for that entertainment (their friends and families) better than the broadcaster ever will. When mass entertainment properties encourage and add value to the networks that grow around them, they make it easier for the network to reciprocate."

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Fast Company -- Seth MacFarlane’s $2 Billion Family Guy Empire

'MacFarlane describes as edgier versions of New Yorker cartoons come to life. Running from 30 seconds to just over two minutes, the shorts are sponsored by advertisers and noteworthy for a host of reasons. For fans, they are MacFarlane's first non-TV venture and so exist outside the reach of censors and network suits and introduce a universe of entirely new characters. For the entertainment industry, they mark the first experiments with a bold new method of content distribution (and the entry of the beast Google into its world). This purportedly unsophisticated hack comic now finds himself, in some ways by accident, at the intersection of advertising, television, and the Web -- all of which are blurring together. MRC provides the funding and sells the ad partnerships, MacFarlane provides the content, and Google serves as distribution outlet, providing the "broadcast" via its AdSense network.'

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Apture – Add Multimedia to Your Site with One Click.

"Apture provides the first rich communication platform allowing publishers and bloggers to easily turn flat pages of text into multimedia experiences."

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Japan, Ink: Inside the Manga Industrial Complex

'"The dojinshi (nonprofessional self-published manga) are creating a market base, and that market base is naturally drawn to the original work," ... the anmoku no ryokai (unspoken, implicit agreement) arrangement provides publishers with extremely cheap market research. To learn what's hot and what's not, a media company could spend lots of money commissioning polls and conducting focus groups. Or for a few bucks it could buy a Super Comic City catalog and spend two days watching 96,000 of its best customers browse, gossip, and buy in real time... These settings often provide early warnings of the shifting fan zeitgeist... the established publishers and the dojinshi creators [relationship works like] something resembling the prisoners' dilemma: If they cooperate — that is, if they honor the terms of anmoku no ryokai — they both gain. But if one overreaches — if publishers crack down aggressively or if dojinshi creators go too far — they both suffer.'

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- The Making of Little Big Planet

Alex Evans, Co-Founder of developer Media Molecule: "It's fun, you can make stuff, and you can share it with your friends."

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Gamasutra -- The Megatrends of Game Design, Part 4

"#Player-created content: ...It is natural for an individual to wish to share the fruit of his creativity, thereby rising from obscurity. Once tasted, the reward of creation often becomes an irresistible need... give power to the players, and they will take over your game... creation becomes the game. #The aging of players: Older gamers will increasingly hold a greater interest in themes that are presently uncommon or poorly developed, such as economic or political simulations. They will assign a greater importance to game-generated emotions and moral dilemmas... [they] will have a harder time becoming immersed in less believable plots or universes. #The emergence of emotions: ...powerful emotions, such as compassion or love are very rarely touched upon. Older players will likely be the first to fully appreciate this emotional dimension of gaming, since it connects with their own life experience; we are, after all, far more sensitive to emotions we have felt before."

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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Nokia -- Press Release: Nokia premieres its newest research laboratory, in Hollywood, USA

'"Hollywood has an enormous variety of academic institutions, innovative media businesses and unique creative talent. It offers exactly the right ingredients for research into topics that will be vital for Nokia's business in the future. The link with the movie industry is naturally strong, however the entertainment concepts we will be working on at the NRC Hollywood laboratory are even more diverse. The laboratory will explore new entertainment experiences that combine the physical and digital worlds. Our research work will focus on mixed reality experiences, with a strong community flavor. We will develop new user interfaces that fully explore the role of the human body and human motion for more natural forms of interaction. Mobile devices will play a central role in this," commented Rebecca Allen, Laboratory Director of NRC Hollywood.'

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- (Little Big Planet）リトルビッグプラネットでゼビウス？

Xevious remake inside Little Big Planet

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november 2008 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- (Little Big Planet）リトルビッグプラネットでグラディウス１面

Gradius remake inside Little Big Planet

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november 2008 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- (Little Big Planet）リトルビッグプラネットでテトリス？

Tetris remake inside Little Big Planet

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november 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired.com -- First Impressions: LittleBigPlanet's Ever-Expanding World of Wonder

"LittleBigPlanet could still be incredibly enticing for non-creators, because it offers us the allure of an ever-growing, unlimited, crowdsourced world full of new levels that are churned out for free on a constant basis. It is, without question, fun to play. But without the constant addition of new content, it wouldn't be half the game it is now. So the LittleBigQuestion is: Will LittleBigPlanet's gameplay limitations give it a shelf life longer than that of the average game? After the new-game smell wears off, will all the levels that users create just be endless iterations of the same basic mechanics?"

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october 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Video Gallery: Top 10 User-Created 'LittleBigPlanet' Adventures

"#7. Duckroll mobile by Tempy-kun: This level is just a riff on duckrolling, the soon-to-be-forgotten internet meme that spawned the far more popular Rickroll. Defining moment: So why is this here? Because even silly levels like these have serious benefits: Users can take the Duckroll mobile and use it in their own levels. It'll still contain the original creator's ID in the metadata."

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october 2008 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Little Big Planet Beta Hell Level

"Here is my level for Little Big Planet Beta! You can get two bonus prizes from this level! Its kind of an underground hellish level! :D" -- Bo!

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october 2008 by adamcrowe

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WebTVWire -- Seth MacFarlane Scores A Hit With ‘Cavalcade Of Comedy’

"The Cavalcade was announced back in June as a tie up between MacFarlane and Google, which is distributing the original series around the Internet using its Content Network, which in turn is part of Google AdSense. Burger King are sponsoring the first ten episodes of the Cavalcade."

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september 2008 by adamcrowe

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Edge Perspectives with John Hagel -- Stupidity and the Internet

"Stories offer potential to communicate some elements of tacit knowledge. They help to provide enough of a sense of context to reconstruct and extend parts of the tacit. Stories, properly told to communicate the richness of context, do not reduce to snippets. In the end, though, tacit knowledge will only flow through shared practice and the deep relationships that build up around shared practice." -- Yup. It's all about the Guilds.

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Bright.ly -- The converging Experience

Option #2: A pill-popping manifesto for branded entertainment. (Clients shout in reply: "But we're not entertainment content companies?!1")

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Sphere

"Sphere connects your current articles to contextually relevant content from your archives as well as from Blog Posts, Media Articles, Video, Photos, and Ads from across the Web."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Hollywood Has Finally Figured Out How to Make Web Video Pay

'Rogow is thrilled with Cisco's digital signs, which can be remotely programmed to display anything you want — like a coded message for Anna. "Which is, I think, why you really invented it: for superspies to get secret messages in malls," he quips. "We think that's real cool." He's equally happy with the surveillance system, which can send Anna a digital alert on her smartphone. "But we want to make sure we've got the Cisco logo in a prominent position"

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Britannica Blog: Sven Birkerts -- A Know-Nothing's Defense of Serious Reading & Culture: A Reply to Clay Shirky

"[Tolstoy's 'War and Peace'] ought not be mocked quite so glibly. It is not just the work, it is the inheritance of the work, the vision of history, the understanding of the intersection of the singular with the societal, that is at issue."

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Extenuating Circumstances –- SXSW 2008: Edit Me! How Gamers are Adopting the Wiki Way

"... that’s where the MMO industry is going, a seamless experience between the web, between wikis that have information about the game... the wiki communities never sleep. They’re more passionate about information being correct than the developers."

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Havas Media Lab -- User Generated Context

"Context > Content: Most user generated content, is, in fact, context. The bulk of what connected consumers create isn’t content: its context – information

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Lively Worlds

"Lively Worlds will be a place where Google Lively users can share their Lively Worlds." ... on a Google Map -- User-generated curation. Gotta love the initative of web folks.

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Roadmap to the Virtual World -- Is Google Lively?

"Large media companies who are publishers of virtual worlds have told me directly that they are not interested in having their work in a new medium hosted by Google; they fear that they’ll lose more advertising models to Google down the road."

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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bit-tech.net -- Spore: Hands-on Preview

Sporecasted 'pollentated content' from Sporepedia to your procedurally-generated universe with built-in storytelling/machinima tools that post to YouTube - And there's a game in there in case you get bored! Spore = Your very own Pixar 'game' studio.

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june 2008 by adamcrowe

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BusinessWeek - Hands On with Will Wright's Spore

"...enabling players to limitlessly create and share new creatures and objects, seems to have the most scalable potential... up to 20% [est.] of players will be so taken with these artistic tools they won't ever play the title in traditional story mode."

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june 2008 by adamcrowe

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Level Up -- Exclusive: Will Wright Gives Level Up the Scoop On Why Spore Is Taking So Long to Get Right, Part II

'having social currency around the game play experience with things like achievement ladders on Xbox Live... In some sense, it's a self esteem generator... you should walk away [from the computer] thinking, "Wow, I didn't know I was so good at that."'

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june 2008 by adamcrowe

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BusinessWeek -- More Than 250,000 Creatures Created and Shared in the Spore Creature Creator

" June 18, 2008" -- That figure is up to 459,086! (June 19 2008)

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june 2008 by adamcrowe

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Gamasutra -- In-Depth: The Evolution Of Maxis' Spore

"...user-generated data from Spore.com is output in RSS or as embeddable HTML, and can be easily integrated into blogs and social networking sites such as Facebook... Spore will upload a demonstration video of your creature directly to a YouTube account."

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june 2008 by adamcrowe

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Terra Daily -- 'Sims' creator lets people play god in new computer game

'"It is more of a social experiment," Wright said. "Science, economics, sociology, things like that are very fun to simulate in the computer." The game culminates with what Wright describes as a "toy galaxy" for players to explore.'

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june 2008 by adamcrowe

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Times Online -- Bryan Appleyard tries out Spore and creates his own species

"What [computers] are really exploring is the collective creativity of millions of people. They are aggregating human intelligence into a system that is more powerful than we thought artificial intelligence was going to be." -- Metabrains

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june 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Hands-On: Spore Creature Creator

"The purpose of the Creature Creator, which goes on sale June 17 for $10, is to give the world a taste of the main characters of Spore. That, and to flood the game with user-made content long before it actually hits store shelves."

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june 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Grand Theft Auto IV Shifts Into Media Overdrive

"But what blew me away was the in-game internet. I clicked around on the in-game internet for more than an hour, and experienced a growing sense of astonishment as I kept hitting page after page after page after page." -- Should leak out.

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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R*M -- KUDOS: A planning and evaluation framework for social media marketing

"Can it be linked to or have you gone and wrapped them up in a big Flash movie that no one can link to? If it’s a Flash movie then there’s less material that can be shared in social book-marking sites." -- Flash: The Enemy of the People. ;^)

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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Dailymotion -- Snow Angel (Sony Vaio)

"Sony VAIO's Online Script Project started with a scene written by John Malkovich. He invited you to continue the story and chose three winners from your entries. Now you can see how the script lives on in this beautiful animation." -- Wow.

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired: How To Wiki -- Make Money Around Free Content

"Here's a list all the revenue models you can find in the media industry, all based around a core of free or almost-free content"

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april 2008 by adamcrowe

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A VC - What My Kids Tell Me About The Future of Media

"They feel that TV shows are better written and more interesting. For roughly $40US, they got something like 25 episodes... My son read four 600 page Harry Potter books on our two week trip..." -- Again: They're hungry. Beware of their appetite.

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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Bitstrips

"YouTube for comics." Oh man. More like 'Bitch Strips'.

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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Out to Pasture - SXSW Notes

"Linden Lab allows you to keep the IP (copyright) of the art you create, the scripts you write, or the textures you upload. They do not grant you ownership of the objects in the world (which can be deleted at their discretion)" -- Nice clarifation

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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BricaBox

"We've taken the best of blogs and social networks, added some amazing new tools and features, and created a platform for you to create your own version of your favorite social content website." -- Good for small stuff. Early-Ning-cloning-clone. OpenID.

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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Kzero - The depth of content creation in Second Life

Graphs: "In total, almost 326,000 items have been created and made available for purchase." -- And socialisation IS content creation. It creates culture, community, and trust. How to measure it? Retention?

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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Kzero - The scale of content creation in IMVU

Graphs: "The graph below shows a break down of the 1.17 MILLION items available for avatar and room (basically the crux of the IMVU environment) customisation - a marketplace over 3.5 times larger than SL." -- 3.5!

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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/swords - “MMO Goal Structures as a Panacea”

"We need a new word. Goal interface trumps user interface. Goals are measurable, comparable, accessible, meaningful, scale in challenge as user progresses. User interface should exist to support goal interface."

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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New York Times - Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain

Girls blogging: “Girls are trained to make stories about themselves. From a young age they learn that they are objects, so they learn how to describe themselves." Boys posting videos: "are less about personal expression and more about impressing others"

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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Agency Model (SlideShare)

#Storytelling: Constructing narratives that increase affinity and engagement over time #Creating spectacles and technologies that build awareness and make it easier for consumers to engage with brands #Content developing entertainment vehicles for brands

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab - Is Etsy the Next Google?

Ysss. Product, product, product!

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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Mint Digital – Notes from UGTV ‘06

“Kids don’t want to do anything without being watched”.

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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Sprout Builder

"With Sprout, you can create sophisticated and dynamic interactive content including mini-sites, widgets, mashups, and more!" - This is good.

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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EMW - Entertainment Media Works

Embedding ecommerce into context aware social media content.

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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Spore -- Spore Release September 7 2008

"Maxis today announced that Spore™ will be available at retailers worldwide the weekend of September 7. Spore will be available for the PC, Macintosh, Nintendo DS™, and mobile phones." -- Oh man. Just tell me where to start queuing.

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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ValleyWag - Jason Calacanis searches for hits

'Less than two months after he launched his search engine [Mahalo], Calacanis has shifted strategies, emphasizing how-to content on the so-called "human powered search engine."' (Apparently, this 'shift' was an intentional diversion.)

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Spinebreakers

"Spinebreakers.co.uk is Penguin's pioneering online book community for teenagers, run by teenagers themselves. Editorial control of the site is in the hands of a core editorial team of nine teenagers aged between 13 and 18 years." Authentic

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Guardian - User-generated content channel MTV Flux to close after 15 months

"The timeshifted MTV One will launch at the beginning of February 2008 and will replace MTV Flux," said a spokesman for MTV. "We are therefore evolving the Flux community." Haha! Yeah, right. 'We are...' No. Your users are. (See what I did there??!)

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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HoneyShed

Something approaching the ultimate.

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Fabbaloo

"Fabbaloo tracks developments in Fabbing, 3D Printing and Desktop Manufacturing. We believe in a future where everyone can easily make any 3D objects by using inexpensive desktop equipment." -- "Fabbing" Fab!

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Life moves pretty fast - Don't write me a script, write me the press release

"Alex Bogusky of CP+B fame, has instructed his creative department not to write him scripts anymore, he wants press releases instead. He wants his teams to be able to answer the question, why would anyone be interested by this piece of content."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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TheSims2.com - The Sims™ 2 H&M Fashion Stuff

"Dress up your Sims in the latest H&M® clothing collections for men and women with The Sims 2 H&M® Fashion Stuff*!"

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Ponoko

"The ponoko.com marketplace connects creators, consumers, digital manufacturing hardware and service providers to promote, make and trade products on Ponoko and social networking websites."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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YouTube - Content, Life & Everything

Video: It's all Digital in 2025. Woo let's have a party! (Tacky)

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Charlie Brookers Screenwipe S4E4P2

Video: "More on youth TV including what the youths themselves actually think" -- Wait for 06:50 for Da Yoot Like Adam Curtis Documentary Shocker!

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Yuwie.com

Get paid to be your digital *self*.

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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tweetgift

"tweetgift is a simple way to show a little appreciation to a friend. all you need is a twitter account." Pay for better gifts? Content creators for micropayments?. Come on. Get to it!

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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Metaversed.com - The Future of Content: Watching the Detectives

"Eventually such entrepreneurs will prevail, however, in the long run in the Long Tail because ultimately, people don't want others telling their story for them; they want to tell it themselves."

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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ClickZ - Activating Brand Content Online

"How can the brand act as a facilitator to the content and the community? What tools can be created for the community? The line between what is brand entertainment and what is brand utility is blurred within the online spaces you design."

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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