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- inactive, on 06/29/2008, -3/+38Does that mean Mrbabyman works in a sweatshop?
- robszol, on 06/29/2008, -3/+33So what if we don't get paid. People put content up because they like creating it, like others viewing it for free, and like using its environment for free. No one is forcing anyone to work in sweatshop conditions. Buried.
- hollywoodphony, on 06/29/2008, -1/+28When I write in my blog, I get paid in sunshine and rainbows.
- robbiemuffin, on 06/29/2008, -1/+13anyone else feel a little contradictory pang, digging this up?
- inactive, on 06/29/2008, -0/+7Wow thats the stupidest thing i ever read, these people choose to do it because they want to and obviously there not expecting pay, its a passion.
In sweatshops its the only option people resort to for a source of income and toil for days injuring themselves on machinery only to earn money not enough for food.
People should be dumped in third world countries before they make stupid comparisons. - inactive, on 06/29/2008, -1/+8 .. doesn't get paid either.. what a sucker.
- inactive, on 06/29/2008, -1/+7WTF? Let's trivialize the suffering of actual sweat-shop laborers by comparing them with the likes of Tay Zonday and people making Dickosauruses on Spore. Lo, the suffering of the Namu Namu guy!
- jnordb, on 06/29/2008, -0/+5What, not in gumdrops and unicorns?
- OSXpert, on 06/29/2008, -1/+5You can apply to be a Youtube partner and get a percentage of the ad revenues from your videos, provided you meet some of their requirements (A certain number of average views on your videos and appropriate, ORIGINAL content). I think a lot of the sites are exploring sharing the profit with users, but the more people get paid for putting their content online, the more likely they are to spam or game sites like digg. :-/
- i38warhawk, on 06/29/2008, -0/+4I think that if you content has value it will speak for itself and you'll eventually find a paying position. Look at Counter Strike, it started as user created content.
- KezG, on 06/29/2008, -1/+5it's funny because it's true, haha.
- CyclonusRIP, on 06/29/2008, -0/+4The whole premise is stupid. People make the content because they enjoy doing so, and like to share it with their friends. Who cares if someone else is making money off of it. Someone else gets paid for giving me a forum to say or do whatever I want. Works for me. A lot better than the alternative of no one getting paid and nothing being published.
- Hangly, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4Candy mountain, Charlie!
- DirtPile, on 06/29/2008, -1/+5My web is air conditioned
- jdaniel284, on 06/29/2008, -0/+4fta, "Similarly, Sony's struggling Playstation 3 console is expected to get a boost later this year with the release of LittleBigPlanet..."
I quit reading at that point. - rromanchuk, on 06/29/2008, -1/+5I can't believe I just gave them a page view for that trash. Newsweek needs to read Human Action. (and so does digg)
- wracker92, on 06/29/2008, -1/+5When will our digital Moses come to lead us out of slavery to the promised land?
- epadafunk, on 06/29/2008, -1/+4Yes
- inactive, on 06/29/2008, -0/+3By sweatshop you mean parent's basement, yes.
- dha07030, on 06/29/2008, -2/+5The payment is the enjoyment of creating your own stuff.
- dilpil1, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3Reminds me of how I was cheated out of $200 last time I had sex.
- hollywoodphony, on 06/29/2008, -1/+4Sorry I'm not a rich kid like you.
- bowe, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3Listen to the rhythm of the chocolate rain, falling on the Numa Numa man. He battles the Star Wars kid and his cunning emissary, Tron guy, not for click-throughs, but for internet fame.
- bluebettle, on 06/29/2008, -0/+3I agree with this article completely; last week I told my friend about a book I liked, and yet I didn't get any money from the publishers for marketing the book. I felt just like those workers in China who get their hands deformed buy sewing a football to them.
- exspasticcomics, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2sweatshop? LOL- hardly... if a free, public made service TOTALLY REPLACES you- then how can you claim that they (the public..) are doing YOUR dirty work? the author doesn't understand the difference between the words 'sweatshop' and 'anarchism.'
- TheKorn2, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2I agree with you. However the problem is that "big media" (and many downstream) is/are now accustomed to paying zilch for the 'everyman' contribution, and refuses to pay any more than zilch for anything that has any sort of production values.
In other words, it's devaluing the *entire* market, except for those at the absolute top (i.e. hollywood, or established TV studios).
Case and point is photographers... it's almost impossible to make a living as a photographer these days, because everyone expects you to give away your shots for free. Screw off that the camera that you used cost $3K and the lens another $2K; just give me the pictures for free! (no, *****-you-very-much, ma'am...) - inactive, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2It is only open source if I can change your comment
- Hangly, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2That explains SomethingAwful.com.
There you get to pay 10bux for the privilege of contributing content. In return you will be verbally abused by the site administrators and probably banned.
Good times. - inactive, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2That's an interesting angle and makes for a good read, but this argument lacks substance and is overall silly.
- HonoredMule, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1Content creators are no longer king; they are 'everyman'. This is no longer a world where you can expect a king's ransom for product that fails to surpass an everyman's trite contribution. Just because it's costly to produce doesn't mean it's worth more, or that it was worth producing in the first place.
- Metasquares, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1The difference is that you could always stop if you no longer want to do it. It's a voluntary activity.
- stfuitsalex, on 06/29/2008, -3/+4Wait until 4chan hears this....
- Beeferr, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1Article is meh but I do get sweaty working on mods.
- diggalicus, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1Nice, I need to start up user generated sweat shop.
- jlachesk, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1... Did you read the article? Or just go off on a tirade aimed at the word "sweatshop"?
- bowe, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1You better hope that the content you generated doesn't catch on.
- rexprime, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1duh
- jhuik, on 06/29/2008, -2/+3Yeah, the title is deceiving. I'm a content writer who's been put out of work by content outsourced from India etc. This is about users using Youtube etc for self-promotion - bully for them! I should have know an article from Newsweek would be so far off the mark.
Read the article before you Digg it! - bowe, on 06/30/2008, -1/+2An infant sweatshop at that!
- RedGreen1, on 06/29/2008, -2/+3I don't consider sites with socially generated content to be anything near sweatshops. But sites like MechanicalTurk sure approach that level.
- third_eye, on 06/29/2008, -1/+1Eerr... what the ***** do you guys think Digg is. You guys drum up these stories for their site to make ad revenue off of you guys.
- benologist, on 06/29/2008, -1/+1People make money spamming digg every day by submitting their sites and shoutspamming their crap to the top.
- inactive, on 06/29/2008, -1/+1Viva la revoluccion!
- asiantoast, on 06/30/2008, -0/+0there is a site that actually pays you for your content...
www.brink.com
photo, video, editorial... check it out. - dannywhite, on 12/02/2008, -0/+0my payment is knowing i did it and letting people know i did it!
http://www.dwhitewebdesign.com/
http://www.2let2sell2buy.com/
http://www.whomain.com/ - Totz83, on 06/29/2008, -2/+1Funny how the labour can be considered "open source" but the end product is far from it.
- bizkit00, on 06/29/2008, -2/+1you think he isn't profiting off of the ability to get your site a hundred thousand hits or more instantly? Some sites are profiting off of it, I'd be surprized if he wasn't getting cut in to some of the deals.
- Balthazaar, on 06/29/2008, -2/+0But what is the difference with sites as http://www.stylesinners.com , it is the collaborative intelligence that is working it out
- Airjuggernaut, on 06/29/2008, -7/+4Stupid Misleading title. I thought this article was going to be about supple mexican kids joining internet lines together for 2 cents a day to allow the American "Daemon" to surf Youtube.
- TheKorn2, on 06/29/2008, -5/+2I wouldn't call web 2.0 a sweatshop, more like a screw job. Here, you create the content, and we'll make all the money off of it. Thank you, *****-you-very-much next time!
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