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The reality of user-generated content

Good NYT piece today on "user-generated content" looking more and more like the mainstream media.

The most-played songs from unsigned bands on MySpace — some played two million or three million times — tend to be as sappy as anything on the radio; the most-viewed videos on YouTube are novelty bits, and proudly dorky. Mouse-clicking individuals can be as tasteless, in the aggregate, as entertainment professionals. ... [G]enius has a bigger junk pile to climb out of than ever, one that requires just as much hustle and ingenuity as the old distribution system.




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"...the Elements of Style for the digital age."
- Seth Godin
Bit Literacy, the book by Mark Hurst, shows how to solve email and info overload.