web 2.0

OECD user-created content report

Zohar Efroni — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:10:59 -0700

I’ve just came across this report published recently by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) about User-Created Content (UCC). The 74-pages report, authored by Sacha Wunsch-Vincent and Graham Vickery, is a highly informative and well-written study providing an up-to-date account on the most significant developments in the area.

AssignmentZero

Lauren Gelman — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:28:07 -0700

Jay Rosen's NewAssignment.net and Wired News just launched AssignmentZero, "an attempt to bring journalists together with people in the public who can help cover a story."

I think this is a really wonderful project that takes the concept of citizen journalism to the next level by creating a platform for professionals and amateurs to collaborate on one story. Check it out and sign up to be a part of the project. Their first project-- assignment zero-- is about crowdsourcing and the larger practice it's part of: peer production on the new information commons.

(I wrote their copyright and privacy policy so please let me know if you have any feedback on that.)

A Funny Think Happened on the Way to the Forum of Ideas

Bruce B. Cahan — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:16:30 -0800

I miss Zero Mostel. I wonder how he'd use laughter to ponder and probe our Web World of today and tomorrow, and how Zero would raise concerns about the Web's privacy protections. But that's a blog for another day...

Zimbio's cool blogging tool

Colette Vogele — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:38:44 -0800

Zimbio is a cool web 2.0 collaborative media company, that has developed a great tool for promoting your blog. (Full disclosure: Zimbio is a client of my firm, and it's founders are friends of mine. So perhaps I'm a bit biased here, but I'll let you decide after checking out their new feature.)

Participatory culture report

Colette Vogele — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:21:30 -0800

The Rise of Participation Culture reports and summarizes a number of trends and explains "why the Internet and a new wave of Web applications have been embraced by a tech-savvy generation and spawned a culture of participation". Steve Borsch does a thoughtful job of reviewing (albeit at a high level) a number of aspects of the new web (or Web 2.0, the LiveWeb, NextGenWeb, or whatever else we want to call it) in three broad categories: Internet as Platform, Participation Applications and People. (Also available from Borsch's blog, Connecting the Dots.) This report hits all the highlights and is worth a read if you're looking for the big picture... you know, that proverbial forest through the trees.