A study shows official Army websites are more apt to reveal sensitive information than soldier blogs. One motivation may be that soldiers in the field have their own safety at stake, discouraging them from revealing too much.

A-list blogger Heather Champ had this amusing T-shirt made at Neighborhoodies.

As agencies cook up user-generated content strategies, "companies have found that inviting consumers to create their advertising is often more stressful, costly and time-consuming than just rolling up their sleeves and doing the work themselves."

TechDirt uses the example of NYC's MetroNorth online lost-and-found system to argue that with Web 2.0, everyone comes out ahead. But when businesses use UGC, does everyone come out ahead equally?

I'm late posting this excellent account of how the Obama campaign wrestled control of a MySpace profile from a committed volunteer.

YouTube has announced it will begin compensating a handful of top contributors. Nick Carr argues that the injection of cash into the YouTube will change the dynamics of the site, away from a commons model.

Law professor Tim Wu used WikiTravel as a guide on a trip to Thailand with disappointing results.

Google announced that the looming surge of advertising will be accompanied by sharing revenue with contributors. Nick Carr provides some insights behind Google's decision.

Nick Carr offers a contrarian view of the iPhone.

"Traditional media companies are ideally placed to benefit from the explosion of user-generated content and should see it as an opportunity and not a threat even though the potential revenue is limited, a report says."

While giving a talk on "User Generated Content" the TechCrunch founder pulled up a Twitter page about his talk. The founder of Flickr said on the page, "Every time I hear "UGC", a little part of me -- and everything I've ever believed in -- dies."