User generated content (UGC) analysis
An interesting post on Erik Duval's blog on the quantitative analysis of user-generated content on the Web. The post refers to a presentation given by Erik and Zavier Ochia at the First International Workshop on Understanding Web Evolution (WebEvolve2008). The research builds on the notion that while consumption of user-generated content (UGC) might seem to be well understood, not enough research has been done on the production of UGC. Having read the paper I am now keen to understand the notion of 'fat tails' and 'fat bellies' and do some analysis of our own sites in order to gain an insight into the contributors of UGC in them. An important warning from the paper for me is to determine whether we have any sites that have a few 'very important' users that are really contributing to the overall success of the sites and how we are looking after them.
technorati tags: UGC, Web 2.0,User Generated Content
