User-Generated Content, Crowd-Sourcing, & Immaterial Labour:

Dr Martens Boot Design
In Rainbows Music Video Contest Judged by Radiohead in conjunction with aniBoom
Enter the In Rainbows Music Video contest for the chance to have Radiohead pick your Animated Music Video for their next track!In Rainbows animated music video contest
Immaterial Labor - Maurizio Lazzarato
Paul Krugman - Immaterial Labour
Everything that can be digitized will be digitized, making intellectual property easier to copy and harder to sell for more than a nominal price.
YouTube - Rick Mercer: Roger Phillips' Blog
The unbearable meaninglessness of blogs. More videos at www.cbc.ca/mercerreport
On a Small Screen, Just the Salient Stuff - NYTimes.com
It seems counterintuitive, but small really is beautiful; and stripping down to basic functions helps remove distractions.
If You Have a Problem, Ask Everyone - NYTimes.com
Would-be innovators can sign up online to compete for prizes for solving diverse problems from around the world in a variety of disciplines.
Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge - Hockey - Sports - CBCSports.ca
Crowdsourcing: Consumers as Creators
A new trend allows customers to help design the products they buy. Just don't expect to get paid a fortune for that brilliant idea.
CBC News In Depth: Crowdsourcing
tech, crowdsourcing
Search Engine | CBC Radio
Search Engine is your open source to all the surprising and significant ways the Internet is transforming our world. It's radio that predicts the present.
Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular - New York Times
In Japan, cellphone novels have not only infiltrated the mainstream but have come to dominate it.
In Japan Half The Top Selling Books Are Written On Mobile Phones
With all the talk about Amazon's Kindle, there's a bigger revolution taking place and those who studied classic literature will be horrified. In ...
Cellphone bards hit bestseller lists | The Japan Times Online
Like many other young Japanese, Rin, 21, punches her mobile phone keys very quickly. Holding her phone with two hands, and moving her thumbs deftly and smoothly, she quickly generates sentences on the small screen.
Scribd - Publish Yourself Online
Scribd is a way to easily put your documents online.
Use Flickr Photos for Custom Capital One Cards
I'm sure you've seen the Austin Powers-inspired Capital One commercials, promoting the new customization options for credit cards, allowing you add your own
Lord of the Memes - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
In the age of the iPhone, prestige has shifted from the producer of art to the aggregator and the appraiser.
All of Us, the Arbiters of News - NYTimes.com
In the age of Twitter and YouTube, crowds are driving the media agendas.
Radiohead Pony Up Extra $$$ for Video Contest Victors | Pitchfork
Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration | Video on TED.com
TED Talks In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.
Digital Domain - How Many Reviewers Should Be in the Kitchen? - NYTimes.com
Web sites that welcome customer reviews have evolved significantly, producing work that increasingly approaches that of their professional forebears.
A Video Contest to Illustrate Democracy - NYTimes.com
The State Department is asking the world to create three-minute videos that answer the question “Democracy is ... ?” as part of a new contest timed to mark International Democracy Day.
LittleBigPlanet Turns Gamers Into Creators - NYTimes.com
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new videogame allows players to conjure up their own design ideas and create playable content that can be uploaded and shared.
YouTube - Industrial Labour Processes
This video explores Taylorism: it's origins and its relevance today.
The new SMARTIES "Gimme Colour" Egg contest is coming soon
Coming soon - your chance to design the next SMARTIES Egg box to be produced in 2009!
Google micro swimming pool on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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G&M - Don Tapscott - Digital boom is about to hit the workplace
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iStockPhoto: Search Royalty Free Images & Photos
Search our royalty free stock images and photos or browse a giant selection of stock photography. Purchase royalty free stock photos at iStockphoto.com.
Threadless T-Shirts - Designer Clothing Submissions - Tees, Tshirts and T shirts!
A collection of shirts submitted and rated by the public
Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008
Blogging grows up | Oh, grow up | The Economist
Blogging is no longer what it was, because it has entered the mainstream
Unboxed - For Innovators, There Is Brainpower in Numbers - NYTimes.com
True invention requires the meeting of minds from myriad perspectives, even if the innovators don’t always realize it.