A Scattershot Look at User-Created Content

Here's an item from UK paper The Independent from last week, entitled, "2007: Don't just watch, blog!" (link via Netscape).

The article is pretty a scattershot roundup of social media in 2006 (with a focus on UK events), with some speculation about the future of citizen content creators -- regular folks creating content.

Only, they're still not really "regular" folks right now -- while social media has made a lot of inroads, we're still pretty heavily concentrated on an elite cadre of  highly-motivated people (feel free to applaud yourselves); young people who are growing up with this (and crave the attention, anyway); as well as other, but still tech-savvy, people.

The question remains -- will people keep using social profiles like MySpace or AIM Pages, or blogs, or wikis, or podcasts, or will we shift to other venues? It's hard to say.

Like I said, the article is kind of all over the place, so I'm having a hard time trying to blog a narrative around it.

Suffice it to say, as bloggers (and to a lesser extent, commenters, and to an even lesser, but still important extent, readers), we're all still participating in this big movement.

Even if you don't care about big movements and just do it to tell your friends about your day. So, kudos.

Thanks -- Joe

Tags: social media, user created content