Bloggers and Journalism

Writers who work for nothing: it's a licence to print money

• Images taken using a cameraphone is an example of user-generated content. e.g. train crash images sent via mobile phone network.
• After the 7/7 bombings there were too many areas needing coverage for the locations so images became available using cameraphones led to media understanding what user-generated media meant.
• Now world over blogging, photographing and making videos published on the web.
• In a year enough digital info was sent that in an equivalent set of books it would stretch for the earth to the sun.
• Prediction for 2010 is 70% of digital content will be user-generated.
• Cynics ask who will pay for the amount of bandwidth required to sustain the growin number of user-generated content on the web.
• Mainstream media is wising up to user-generated content and just require 'monetising it'.

Conclusion

The number of people using the internet for user-generated content is growing and the traditional mainstream media are sceptics asking who will pay for this while others are trying to 'monetise' the user-generated industry.