You Are a Proud Publisher

Dec 28, 2006

Scott Karp at The Blog Herald writes that he hates the expression “user-generated content” that is so ubiquitous on social media websites such as YouTube and MySpace. I totally agree. I think it’s quite condescending. Scott writes:

The problem is that “users” are defined in opposition to “publishers” — as if people who create “blogs” are still in some lesser, “other” category, below and apart from traditional publishers like, uh, Yahoo.

It’s very convenient actually. Terming people who create content as “users” rather than publishers psychologically legitimizes the sense of superiority of conventional publishers.

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