| .jayderyu said: DD will become standard. It's the future. Though when I refer to DD being the future i'm not talking about 5 years. I'm talking about the time when all houses have builtin computers and the internet is part of home rent cost. You don't see this happening anytime soon do you, but it's inevtiable. As for Malstrom UGC. what a load of crap. On one hand he praises about Consumer Control and then his other hand comments about User braindeadness and how UGC will never work. Well Malstrom YouTube says hello. Hell the entire internet says hi. That blog your using Malstrom is saying hello. Pretty much a majority of all the core technologies spawned as some bedroom piece of software. PHP & SQL didn't start as corporate entities. He has no idea what he is talking about, but UGC of Youtube is the biggest slap in the face to his theory. He's just a whiner. |
Content is NOT created by normal users, if normal users (CONSUMERS, note CONSUME there) are the ones paying money to be entertained. They pay money to have someone else create it (not themselves). If the creators are skilled, they eventually get paid. You don't bank on masses to generate a bunch of noise, and expect the consumer to find that entertainment. What the whole "User generated content will save the world" bit is, is a bunch of Technocrati believing that their day will come, and the industry will provide them tools to create their own stuff, and tweak. Consumers don't value the desire to tweak. What they do value is a product doing what they want, out of the box.
In a nutshell, Technocrati needs to produce and control stuff, and get their meaning and purpose from doing stuff. Consumers don't. They just want to consume. They want stuff to fit into their lives and not change it, but better it. And they DON'T want to have to put effort into getting there.
And, if you are calling him a whiner, you are a Technocrati, and totally miss what he is writing here.
