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"Digital Sharecropping"? Hah
- wglb 17y agoGrumpy, I would say. Did we overlook the part where Atwood helps run Stackoverflow which is entirely powered by user generated content? I think Jeff raises a good question, but unfortunately uses a bit of a hysterical headline.
- phsr 17y agoJeff is trying to get across is that before you devote an amount of effort towards something powered by user generated content, you should ask yourself a few questions. Near the end of the post, he lists a set of questions you may want to ask yourself: * What do you get out of the time and effort you've invested in this website? Personally? Professionally? Tangibly? Intangibly? * Is your content attributed to you, or is it part of a communal pool? * What rights do you have for the content you've contributed? * Can your contributions be revoked, deleted, or permanently taken offline without your consent? * Can you download or archive your contributions? * Are you comfortable with the business model and goals of the website you're contributing to, and thus directly furthering? That is probably the most important part of Jeffs post, and I think IT Goon missed that part
- itgoon 17y agoI didn't miss that part. That's where Jeff posts the criteria _he_ looks at. His assumption is that those criteria are not just good for _everyone_ who uses a user-generated-content site, but for _all_ user-generated content. Mr. Atwood thinks that users should receive more for their efforts, and backs it up by giving more at the sites he runs. I respect that. Try running his criteria past the user of a typical MySpace user. I'd bet the answers run a lot like this: * my friends can see it * my name is at the top, so it is me * I don't care (excepting serious artists, who should know better by now) * yes, if I'm a jerk * All I care about are my pictures, and I have copies * are they killing children in Rwanda, or something?