UHFMagazine - 2008-05 - May 2008: the life of online communication and its ownership

The "Wired" magazine published an interesting chart (1) about the life of a blog, few months ago.

The idea is simple: everybody talks about user created content and its expression, Web 2.0, or what is coming next.

Unfortunately, search engines generated a funny habit: while corporations are quite territorial about their own intellectual property, they have a cavalier attitude about user-generated content.

As described in other sections of this article, I would suggest that you always read the small print about what implies posting something (pictures, text, media, anything else) on a website.

Yes, you do not pay for hosting your content.

And yes, you can reach a larger public than on your own website.

But, frankly, when you can get for 50 USD per year Terabytes of traffic and space, with pre-installed applications, the question becomes simple: why are you posting online?