Postbubble has an awesome article today about digg, netscape, social news and remuneration for community driven content. I think this is a really interesting area since there is inherent value in content created by the community but there is also value in giving people a soap box.
At the moment digg, amazon reviews, wikipedia and even webmasterworld run on a similar basis to speaker’s corner… I like the sound of my own voice, I love having an audience hence I contribute.
There are however a new breed of sites out there that are starting to pay people to create content. Some examples are Google Video, forums.digitalpoint.com, Netscape Navigators and About.com guides.
The old adage goes there is no better price than free but as a contributor, you know what? I want to get paid.
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