Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Web Content by and for the Masses This article by John Markoff in the NYTimes Technology section provides an interesting overview about how information/entertainment consumerism is shifting to prosumerism on the Internet. The same trend is developing in education. ___JH ________ "Indeed, the abundance of user-generated content - which includes online games, desktop video and citizen journalism sites - is reshaping the debate over file sharing. Many Internet industry executives think it poses a new kind of threat to Hollywood, the recording industry and other purveyors of proprietary content: not piracy of their work, but a compelling alternative. The new services offer a bottom-up creative process that is shifting the flow of information away from a one-way broadcast or publishing model, giving rise to a wave of new business ventures and touching off a scramble by media and technology companies to respond." "The new services offer a bottom-up creative process that is shifting the flow of information away from a one-way broadcast or publishing model, giving rise to a wave of new business ventures and touching off a scramble by media and technology companies to respond." 7:46:38 AM    COMMENT []