[Sigia-l] Web 2.0 99% bad

[Katie Ware]

Has anyone seen this Jupiter report? I don't have a subscription...
 
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.san&s=60337&Nid=30392&p=293799"User-Generated Content: Strategies for Media Sites," JupiterResearch reports that UGC is now a mainstream activity for millions of consumers."
 
However this article lumps both creation AND viewing of UGC as the same thing. "One-half of Online Users Are Either Readers or Creators." I would hope the report would split the activities out, since I think the model of more are passive participants and fewer are active participants holds with UGC (as is also stated iin the Businessweek links below)
 
- Katie 



> Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:31:15 -0700> From: mail.dmitry at gmail.com> To: james.aylett at tangozebra.com> CC: sigia-l at asis.org> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Web 2.0 99% bad> > There was a presentation at Web 2.0 Expo last month by with some data> on audience participation at some popular 2.0 sites:> > http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/pdf/Tancer%20Web2expo1.pdf> http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2007/04/are_most_web_20.html> > According to these data, only about 0.2% of visits to Youtube and> Flickr are related to content creation. Wikipedia is a bit higher,> with 4.5% of visits related to editing entries (although one could> argue that, for an apples to apples comparison, the YouTube/Flickr> numbers would need to include visits to comment on as well as upload> content).> > There are also some very interesting numbers on participation by age> group on slides 8 and 9 that refute the idea that the under 25 crowd> are always the main contributors to 2.0 sites. For YouTube in> particular, the main contributors seem to be in the 35-44 age group,> while under 25's are primarily passive viewers.> > Dmitry> >> > When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible.> > *Plain text, please; NO Attachments> >> > Searchable Archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/> > ________________________________________> > Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: Sigia-l at asis.org> > Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l> >> ------------> IA Summit 2008: "Experiencing Information" > April 10-14, 2008, Miami, Florida> > -----> When replying, please *trim your post* as much as possible.> *Plain text, please; NO Attachments> > Searchable Archive at http://www.info-arch.org/lists/sigia-l/> ________________________________________> Sigia-l mailing list -- post to: Sigia-l at asis.org> Changes to subscription: http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigia-l