Comments on: MSNBC.com launches ‘First Person’ http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/ Where TV Finds the Future Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:43:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ron http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-583193 Ron Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:12:47 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-583193 trakadol trakadol

]]> By: Bobi http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-583172 Bobi Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:08:42 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-583172 trazmadol trazmadol

]]> By: Ron http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-507191 Ron Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:01:42 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-507191 myfreepaysite members myfreepaysite members

]]> By: jay http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-203095 jay Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:34:28 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-203095 I don't see what the big deal is. It's nice and flashy and all but all they're basically doing is asking for reader photos, video, stories, etc, and lots of other sites have been doing that for years. I guess it's getting lots of attention because it's msnbc catching up with the jones, but still. Big whoop. I don’t see what the big deal is. It’s nice and flashy and all but all they’re basically doing is asking for reader photos, video, stories, etc, and lots of other sites have been doing that for years.

I guess it’s getting lots of attention because it’s msnbc catching up with the jones, but still.

Big whoop.

]]> By: Michelle M Brown http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-202999 Michelle M Brown Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:07:23 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-202999 Rex and Jim, web friends, First Person is NOT a bad thing. I just do not think it is citizen journalism. In fact, I don't think it's journalism at all and I doubt that you do either. And I know that you are NOT personally profitting from it. It's a corporate-sponsored space to share content and that is indeed cool for users. It is also, undoubtably, intended to sell eyeballs, clicks, and stickiness to advertisers. No one's panties need be wadded. I adore my blogs and bloggers and do not want to offend anyone. I just happened to see the First Person story on the same night we talked about citizen journalism in one of my classes and discussed what it means. I can understand your frustration with trying to add value to a site for users, and then have someone like me bitching about it. It's actually the first time I have ever posted a comment on LR, and it may be the last (well, no, technically this one will be the last). I'm just too anti-big media that I can't keep my mouth shut. It comes out all venom. BTW, I enjoy fimoculous too, but vow not to comment. Rex and Jim,
web friends, First Person is NOT a bad thing. I just do not think it is citizen journalism. In fact, I don’t think it’s journalism at all and I doubt that you do either. And I know that you are NOT personally profitting from it. It’s a corporate-sponsored space to share content and that is indeed cool for users. It is also, undoubtably, intended to sell eyeballs, clicks, and stickiness to advertisers. No one’s panties need be wadded. I adore my blogs and bloggers and do not want to offend anyone. I just happened to see the First Person story on the same night we talked about citizen journalism in one of my classes and discussed what it means. I can understand your frustration with trying to add value to a site for users, and then have someone like me bitching about it. It’s actually the first time I have ever posted a comment on LR, and it may be the last (well, no, technically this one will be the last). I’m just too anti-big media that I can’t keep my mouth shut. It comes out all venom. BTW, I enjoy fimoculous too, but vow not to comment.

]]> By: Jim Ray http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-202459 Jim Ray Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:16:34 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-202459 Hey, Rex, what are you planning on doing with all those MegaBucks we're raking in from our MegaCorp parents since we launched this wildly lucrative UGC app? I'm thinking of taking the new Learjet for a spin, maybe skip over to Paris for the weekend. I just don't know if I'll have time to spend all this money we're making letting users upload photos. Just so I understand correctly, when we don't offer ways for our readers to provide their own content, we're ivory tower gatekeepers, but when we do build these tools, we've jumped some shark/bandwagon for the sole purpose of selling ads. #include com.msnbc.FirstPerson if(do){ you.damned(); } else if(don_t){ you.damned(); } sigh... Hey, Rex, what are you planning on doing with all those MegaBucks we’re raking in from our MegaCorp parents since we launched this wildly lucrative UGC app? I’m thinking of taking the new Learjet for a spin, maybe skip over to Paris for the weekend. I just don’t know if I’ll have time to spend all this money we’re making letting users upload photos.

Just so I understand correctly, when we don’t offer ways for our readers to provide their own content, we’re ivory tower gatekeepers, but when we do build these tools, we’ve jumped some shark/bandwagon for the sole purpose of selling ads.

#include com.msnbc.FirstPerson

if(do){
you.damned();
} else if(don_t){
you.damned();
}

sigh…

]]> By: Rex http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-201977 Rex Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:31:43 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-201977 Hah! You totally got me there. Everyone who knows me knows how I'm a shill for MegaCorp Inc! Hah! You totally got me there. Everyone who knows me knows how I’m a shill for MegaCorp Inc!

]]> By: Michelle M Brown http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-201924 Michelle M Brown Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:09:44 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-201924 Doesn't the CITIZEN in citizen journalism imply grassroots participatry media by average citizens rather than a mega corporation and media conglomerate like Microsoft and NBC (owned by General Electric)? The world's most successful citizen journalism effort is ohmynews in South Korea. First Person is less about General Electric and Microsoft wanting to support citizen journalism and more about jumping on the user-generated content bandwagon in order to sell those same users to advertisers. Doesn’t the CITIZEN in citizen journalism imply grassroots participatry media by average citizens rather than a mega corporation and media conglomerate like Microsoft and NBC (owned by General Electric)? The world’s most successful citizen journalism effort is ohmynews in South Korea. First Person is less about General Electric and Microsoft wanting to support citizen journalism and more about jumping on the user-generated content bandwagon in order to sell those same users to advertisers.

]]> By: Rex http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-201479 Rex Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:44:43 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/02/27/msnbccom-launches-first-person/#comment-201479 Rock. Any feedback? Note how we're trying to mix user content with editorial voice. Couple examples: msnbc.msn.com/id/17154718/ msnbc.msn.com/id/17270255/ Rock. Any feedback? Note how we’re trying to mix user content with editorial voice. Couple examples:

msnbc.msn.com/id/17154718/
msnbc.msn.com/id/17270255/

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