User Generated Content

PHOTOS: Secret Ingredients To Put On Everything

Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Condiments, Hot Sauces, Ingredient in Everything, Favorite Condiment, Food, Most Often Used Ingredient, User Generated Content, Slidepollajax, Favorite Ingredient, Favorite Seasoning, Ketchup, Secret Ingredient, KitchenDaily News

We all have a favorite ingredient -- one that we toss (often inappropriately) into our recipes or that we douse on all of our food. For many it's hot ...

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When Are You Happy? Tell Us On Twitter

Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Video, Twitter, User Generated Content, Slidepollajax, Happiness, Healthy Living News

We're happy when #ImHappyWhen is trending in the twittersphere. Twitter tells us there is a wide spectrum of what brings us delight ... from spend...

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Cooking From Back Of The Package: Twists On Instant Ramen

Kitchen Daily | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Ramen Flavor Packet, Maruchan Ramen, Video, Homemade Ramen, Ramen Soup, Ramen Noodles, Back of the Box, User Generated Content, Slidepollajax, Nissin Ramen, KitchenDaily News

We all love the instant ramen out of the packet, sometimes even with the MSG-laden flavor packet (we should know better, right?). Ramen is easily a go...

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Our Readers' Biggest Kitchen Disasters

Kitchen Daily | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Baking Disasters, Funny Kitchen Stories, Kitchen Catastrophes, Cooking Disasters, Video, User Generated Content, Slidepollajax, Kitchen Disasters, Kitchen Mishaps, KitchenDaily News

Everyone has had a disaster happen in the kitchen at one point or another. Your cookies burned, your sauce boiled over, or perhaps you burned down the...

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New Look Coming for HuffPost Politics

Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Politics, Twitter, User Generated Content, Facebook, Huffington Post, Politics News

Huffington Post Politics is pleased to share the winning design from our reader social media icon competition. Kenneth Thomas of Philadelphia, Pa....

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Enter the HuffPost Pol Icon Competition

Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Politics, Twitter, Huffington Post, Facebook, User Generated Content, Politics News

This post has been updated below. When Huffington Post Politics launched its Twitter account in July of 2008, George Bush was president, Sarah Pal...

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VIDEO: CNN's iReport at Five Years: "Core of How We Tell Big, Breaking Stories"

Andy Plesser | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Ireport, User Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Journalism, Cnn, Media News
Andy Plesser

2011-08-01-Screenshot20110801at11.12.32AM.jpg On Tuesday, hundreds of citizen reporters around the world will attend Meetups organized by CNN to mark the fifth anniversary of its iReport.

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Our Favorite Places To Be Outside In The Summertime: Submit Your Own! (PHOTOS)

Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Photos, Pets, Friends, Beach, Work-Life Balance, Iced Tea, Outdoors, Summer Vacation, Swimming, Summer, Sailing, Vacation, Eating, Gold Peak, User Generated Content, Relaxing, Summertime, Relaxation, Family, Food News

While the days may technically be getting shorter, summer is hardly over. If anything, it's only started to kick into full gear. As the temperature ri...

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How the AP Vetted a Citizen Video of a Death in Cairo -- And the Arduous Task of Verifying UGC

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Msnbc, Video, Egypt, Cnn, Associated Press, Youtube, New York Times, User Generated Content, News, Washington Post, Media News
Andy Plesser

While there is value having citizens reporting out on the streets, verifying the content can be an arduous task.

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Thinking "Inside" the Box: How Freeloaders Can Make You a Load of Cash

Tom Grasty | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Knight News Challenge, Evernote, Stroome, Linkedin, Community, Skype, Online Video, Participitory Media, Editing, Technology, User Generated Content, Business Model, Mailchimp, Freemium, Technology News
Tom Grasty

As an internet entrepreneur, the question I'm asked most often is this: "How are you going to make money?" I tell them the plan isn't to charge for our service, and what happens next never fails.

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Users Want Tosh(ers)

Alexandra Juhasz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Web 2.0, Youtube, Wayne's World, User Generated Content, Tosh.0, Media News
Alexandra Juhasz

I was recently interviewed by Time magazine about the phenomenon of Tosh.0. Once again, my YouTube studies lead me to pop-analysis of cultural phenome...

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From Garage Startup to Knight Grant Recipient

Tom Grasty | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Knight News Challenge, Community, Participitory Media, Online Video, Editing, Future of Journalism, The Future of News, User Generated Content, Technology, Stroome, Media News
Tom Grasty

For many, receiving a grant from the prestigious Knight Foundation is a capstone achievement for a long and distinguished career in journalism. Stroome, the collaborative online video editing community won the Knight 2010 News Challenge.

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How Open Salon's User-Generated Content is Changing the World of Writing

Caroline Hagood | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Articles, Camille Paglia, Fiction, Rebecca Traister, Garrison Keillor, Open Salon, User Generated Content, Journalism, Poetry, Healthy Living News
Caroline Hagood

Open Salon is an endlessly fascinating place; like the Internet, its very structure teaches you how to interact with it, but unlike the Internet, that structure is essentially altruistic. It forces its participants to be supportive of one another.

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A Social Network Users Bill of Rights: You Decide

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Facebook Privacy, Bill of Rights, User Generated Content, Data, Social Networking, Privacy, Consumers, Consumer Rights, Technology News
Christina Gagnier

Over the last week, IT specialists, academics, lawyers, journalists, activists, students and others met in San Jose for the annual Computers, Freedom ...

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Why I Delete Comments on My Blog

Dave Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youtube, Facebook, User Generated Content, Censorship, Blogging, Flickr, Free Speech, Technology News
Dave Taylor

I regularly delete comments, and even ban commentators from my AskDaveTaylor.com tech support site.

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How to Engage Youth in a Post-Obama Presidential Campaign World

HeathCliff Rothman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jack Black, Digital Media, Film Competition, Social Innovation, Yoko Ono, President Obama, Film Your Issue, What's Your Issue Film Competition, Social Activism, Best Buy, 2008 Presidential Election, Apple, Tom Brokaw, Social Entrepreneurship, Deepak Chopra, What's Your Issue, Youtube, User Generated Content, Corporation for National and Community Service, Craig Newmark, Jimmy Wales, Chad Hurley, Youtube Video for Change, Impact News
HeathCliff Rothman

The What's Your Issue Film Competition is asking young social innovators to make a three-minute video explaining their idea for a project that would address a current national problem.

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Crowdsourcing: A Legitimate Marketing Resource

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Creativity, Paid Content, Bud Frankel, Social Innovation, Sales, Content, Crowdsourcing, Open Source, Innovation, Women in Business, Media, Business, Brand Marketing, User-Generated News, User-Generated Content, Retail Sales, Advertising, Online Advertising, Mountain Dew, Branding, Marketing, User Generated Content, Doritos, Ideas, Media News
Sarah O'Leary

Realizing that fans' creative energy can increase awareness and sales, marketers are giving more control of brands to consumers with campaigns like Mountain Dew's Dewmocracy and Doritos "Crash the Super Bowl" contest.

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Is YouTube the Successor to Television -- Or to LIFE Magazine?

Dan Schiller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Henry Luce, The Guild, Journalism, Adwords, Internet, Television, Youtube Politics, Google Advertising, Life Magazine, Advertising, Online Advertising, Online Video Advertising, Youtube, Online Video, Doubleclick, Hulu, User Generated Content, Magazines, Media News
Dan Schiller

YouTube's content may render it less like commercial TV than like a prior icon of our common culture, Life Magazine -- which failed as a weekly late in 1972.

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Italy's Case Against Google Is a Bad Moon Rising

Leslie Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Italy, User-Generated Content, Internet Service Provider, Law, Youtube, Google, Searching, Technology News
Leslie Harris

If platforms for expression like YouTube were held responsible for all the content posted by users, then companies would be forced to actively screen all content before it could be posted -- no small feat.

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The YouTube Winner Is . . .

Brian Dickie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Viral Marketing, Social Media, Youtube, Chicago Opera Theater, User Generated Content, Chicago News
Brian Dickie

The winning video in the Chicago Opera Theater's free opera contest.

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The Consumer Review Opportunity for Local Businesses

Lawrence Coburn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media, Smb, Ugc, Reviews, Smb-Marketing, Smb Marketing, Yelp, Consumer-Reviews, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Rateitall, Technology, Business News
Lawrence Coburn

Rather than waste time trying to silence the websites that host consumer reviews, or the consumers themselves, local businesses would be better served to channel their energy towards maximizing the value of this new medium.

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Is The Yelp Controversy Overblown?

Lawrence Coburn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media, Smb, Reviews, Ugc, Consumer Reviews, Social Networking, Yelp, Smb Marketing, Web 2.0, Ratings, User Generated Content, Small Business Marketing, Rateitall, Business News
Lawrence Coburn

There has been a flurry of controversy around the local business rating community Yelp.com. The allegations? That Yelp will remove or hide negative reviews for companies that advertise.

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Do User-Generated Review Sites Sites do More Harm Than Good?

Pauline Millard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet, Review Sites, Housing, User-Generated Content, Yelp, Free Speech, Apartments, First Amendment, Real Estate, New York City, Landlords, Rentals, Citizen Journalism, New York City Apartments, Technology, Citizen Journalists, Media News
Pauline Millard

I would worry about what these sites said about me and how they were monitored. Users post anonymously, and there are no checks and balances to investigate if any of the claims are valid.

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