Thursday, December 13, 2007

Participant Generated Content vs. User Generated Content

PGC or UGC? Which one will it be? To tell you the truth, I have been in this blog business for more than years now and I still can’t get a hang of the terminology.

Are blogs UGC? (Nope) Are Comments UGC? (Yes) …

So, it comes to pass that Robert Scoble, supposed purveyor of cool web tools sporting a freshly minted career along the lines of ‘David Frost meets Jay Leno kind of interviewer/chat show’ decides to write a useful blog post for a change, revealing with a purposefully accidental flourish that he will soon be leaving Podtech, where he did interviews and other stuff, for FastCompany where he will continue to explore new stuff in video.

Scoble gives out some insights into the Online Video Business and if you like Jaywalking on the Tonight Show, Smile, you are on Candid Camera, and similar public involving shows and if you are into recording rock concerts and other public events on your cell phone and if you dig Road Movies, you will understand where Scoble is heading.

Pointing to sites like Digg.com, Youtube.com, Scoble goes on to say this:

I’m tired of getting used by companies who just use and use and use without giving me anything in return.

… I actually love it when Christopher Coulter calls it “loser generated media.”


Digg users, take note.
But, I still don’t see whether ‘Participant Generated Media’ will make the participants rich.

Can PDC make participants make participants happy? Yes.
But, aren’t Youtube and its clones making from PGC?

Some things never change. Only the terminology does.

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Monday, May 14, 2007

Friction TV: The Youtube of Debate

Created by Omar Sheikh, former head of Saatchi & Saatchi interactive and PR consultant Andy West, Friction TV will be launched this week in U.K. aiming to be the ‘virtual speakers’ destination, where people can upload videos of themselves arguing about and challenging issues that affect them most, including hot popular culture topics such as whether it is indeed OK to have reporters accompanying Prince Harry’s trip to Iraq.

To get things going, the site has already been seeded by videos of some prominent personalities in U.K.

The ad-supported site, which will also be accessible from Mobiles won’t be moderated but the webmasters may remove objectionable racial or personal attacks.

To popularize Friction TV, the promoters plan to erect Friction TV booths along the lines of Quick photo booths, in public places where people can record themselves without having to go with the hassle of setting things up for recording in their homes.

A related idea:
Why not have a Friction TV channel on Youtube?
You get more exposure and can save on bandwidth charges.

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