What Tools Exist for User Published Content? 27
wbav asks: "Recently there's been a trend to user published content. A couple of examples of this trend include Wikis, Podcasting, Blogs, and the resulting RSS Feeds. Last night I was asked if any other similar technologies exist. As I did not have a good response, that is my question to the slashdot community. Are there any other similar technologies which deal with user publishing that I have not mentioned?"
What about eBooks? (Score:5, Interesting)
New User-Publishing Agent (Score:1)
I think it's being released with the codename "BBS", maybe some of you have heard of it before?
Seriously? (Score:2)
But this whole topic seems soo stupid.
Re:Time to drag out this old chestnut: (Score:1)
In 1827, Einstein wasn't even a sparkle in his grandad's sgukarkle (with apologies to Ice-Burg or whatever that guy's name is with the big pants, you know, the one who says "can't touch this shnizzle in my fizzle" or something?).
I think that you may have meant 1927.
Look to games (Score:3, Insightful)
Why? Because everyone wins. Its a symbiotic relationship. Mods provide extra content for an already published title, increasing its popularity, longevity, and sales (Half-Life 1, anyone?). The community feeds itself as well as the existing game. And the cherry on top is that plenty of dev studios are recruiting the cream of the mod-scene crop to bolster their own ranks. End result is better games for everyone.
Mostly everything. (Score:4, Interesting)
WWW - everyone can have a webpage.
FTP, all of the P2P - everyone can host files they have made themselves.
Forums, BBS, Message Boards, Mailing Lists - based on user content.
IRC, chats - nothing more pathetic than a dead chat without users.
Banner ads - all the "banner exchange" style stuff brings it into users' hands.
Blogs - user-content journalism.
eBay - user-content e-commerce.
Development sites like SourceForge - user-content software development
del.icio.us - hell if I know what it is, but it's all user-content.
Think of mostly any service or feature of the online world and you'll find user-content counterpart easily. I'd be hard-pressed to find domains without user-content. Ones I could think of... reserved for corporate customers - say, "Microsoft Channel Bar", mostly dead by now, or Windows Update... no, nope. The user-content counterpart for this is called malware.
Digg (Score:2)
This whole phenomenon is a part of "the read-write web" and "social software".
graffiti (Score:2)
one dat Negroponte might let them have his cheap PDA, until then it's spray paint
IP TV? (Score:3, Insightful)
The thing about all the technologies you mentioned is that they're all slight tweaks of stuff that's been around for 10 years (web sites, mp3 files) and who knows why that specific tweak was all it took for the technology to take off in some new direction? I guess there's a certain "friction" value that you need to get below for something to reach critical mass.
The problem with asking the question "what's the next big thing" in any field (such as home-grown content creation and distribution technology) is that the answer is usually "something nobody has thought of before now"...
Re:IP TV? (Score:3, Informative)
iTunes already supports it. [arstechnica.com] (well, it's just using RSS to link to video files, not audio files, which was all podcasting really was)
There are rumors that here may be updates to the iPod to allow it to play video, although I'd suspect at a major hit to battery life.
(and well, more cycles on the batteries -> faster battery failure, which wouldn't be a good thing)
Re:IP TV? (Score:2)
Maybe this is a case of taking the current state of affairs and linearly extrapolating the technology, when in fact we need to look for unexpected right angles
Re:IP TV? (Score:2)
Re:IP TV? (Score:2)
What type of publishing? (Score:1, Informative)
On the live front, there's also the whole webcam [wikipedia.org] thing which gave rise to the camwhore [thebestpag...iverse.net] movement. Shoutcast [wikipedia.org] type things for "internet broadcasting" y
This has got to be the most inane topic I have see (Score:1, Insightful)
It used to be that one would read slashdot for iformation from highly intelligent peers, anymore tho it feel like I should be taking off
Re:This has got to be the most inane topic I have (Score:1)
I really have to take exception. Your comment is no more acceptable than any other prejudicial remark.
Lulu (Score:3, Informative)
I'm surprised more people aren't mentioning lulu [lulu.com]. You upload, they sell & distribute. Damn simple way to get all the "long tail" content out there.
Here [dontshoott...engers.com] is a typical example of the content I'm talking about. It's a great film but the distribution is so far out of the scope of the creator that it just isn't worth investing in a personalized eStore, advertising etc.
K5? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Mediawiki (Score:2)
While not directly a content management system (or rather it is a CMS, but aimed heavily at the Encyclopedia market) it does very well as a CMS for pretty much any application. I use mediawiki to handle about ... well let's ask my Mediawiki:
http://www.seifried.org/security/index.php/Special :Statistics [seifried.org]
"There are 13,208 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about Seifried Security Site, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. E
Usenet news posting (Score:2)
Usenet is a distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name. It was conceived by Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979. Users, sometimes called Usenetters, read and post email-like messages (called "articles") to a number of distributed newsgroups, categories that resemble bulletin board systems in most respects. The medium is sustained among a large number of servers, which store and f
The read/write web (Score:2)
To answer the poster's question, I have no idea. I use GeekLog [geeklog.com], and I like it.
diarist.com (Score:1)
http://drupal.org/ [drupal.org] - open source blog/cms tool