Crowdsourcing and user generated content
The person of the year, according to Time magazine is you. Aren’t you glad? ( = Time made some weird, arbitrary choices about who they actually wrote about inside the covers, but I heartily agree with their basic statement—user-generated content is huge right now and for the foreseeable future.
Wired has a neat article about crowdsourcing and user-generated content (ugencon?) in Second Life. The success of Second Life is entirely built on what its users can provide… surfing that wave is working really well for them and that makes me glad. One company, Cambrian House is even getting explicit about this idea by directly basing its business model entirely on user-generated content (UGC?) and crowdsourcing. Seems to be a sort of paid open source…
And in other news, humans smell like bacon.