Shanti’s Dispatches

Sorry, it must.

I realize it might be a great business model. Maybe it’s just the way it’s bantied about… either I’m not getting the sarcastic nature of each reference to “user-generated content,” or I’ve just lost my capitalistic, web 2.0 edge.

Someone pitching a VC on their new user-generated content play:

See, mr VC - here’s my business plan idea. All these naive users of ours are silly enough to generate ‘user content,’ that is, ‘user-generated content’ for us. We then monetize said content by providing an Open API into our ad-serving system, while leveraging existing exigencies and core competencies of AdSense and other third-party systems. You see, it’s all very open. We’re an ‘open source business.’

Here’s a question: when was the last time you generated some content?

Is that what I’m doing now? Is that what I’m doing over on my Flickr account?

Sorry, it may just be the wording. But ick.

…next post will be less ranty, I swear!

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