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What exactly is "User Generated Content"?

There's an interesting discussion going on over at CenterNetworks , with Allen calling out Mike Arrington and co. for giving Digg the award for "best user-generated content". Allen says that Digg doesn't belong in that category (which he includes Wikipedia, your blog, and Flickr), but...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-22-2008
Friday Fun: Best DUI Ever

With New Year's Eve approaching, I want to implore everyone to be careful... or at least practice your dancing and alphabet in reverse. "Remarkable, I've never actually seen anyone do that." Classic.

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-28-2007
Aloha, Mahalo.com

I found this arrangement in my feed reader mildly amusing this morning: Fred Wilson's post on Mahalo.com directly above a post by Brad Feld entitled "The Computer Should Be Doing the Work for Us". (They are unrelated entries). Mahalo.com is, of course, a people-powered search engine that Jason Calacanis...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-31-2007
I Don't Get Twitter

I am really struggling to find value in Twitter, and I'm certainly not the only one staying out of the Twitter lovefest. It is mildly interesting from a technical perspective but doesn't really add much to what I can do today. (Not to mention it's been down and/or slow under the load lately...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-22-2007
More on the Music Industry's Slow Death

This letter from a former customer further illustrates how the music industry is alienating its customers. While I would like to say I responded with something witty, I must admit to being completely flummoxed. There I sat, a loyal music fan who has shelled out actual money to a business that is supposed...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-22-2007
Streamburst offers innovative DRM for video

I've already discussed the German music store using watermarks to discourage piracy , and now it seems another service is applying the same principle to video . Instead of handcuffing viewers who want to view films they purchase on multiple devices and otherwise use content legitimately in ways DRM blocks...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-28-2007
Wisdom

There is an important distinction between factual information and understanding how to apply it in context ( via Matthew ). Data is "the sun rises at 5:12 AM" Information is "the sun rises from the East, at 5:12 AM" Knowledge is "If you're lost in the woods without a compass, follow the direction of...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-25-2007
Safety through Chaos

There is a theory that strict laws encourage anti-social behavior . Ultimately, these strict laws do the opposite of what they were intended to do, because they allow us to rationalize away responsibility. Along those lines, a Dutch town has eliminated nearly all traffic lights ( via Jeff ) and seen...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-10-2007
Do strict laws encourage anti-social behavior?

Mowab writes : [T]he idea, generally, is that you encourage community and cooperation by removing the safeguards that would keep you safe if you’re antisocial or don’t try to cooperate. What’s interesting is the corollary argument that social safeguards actually encourage antisocial...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-30-2004

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