Re-user generated content: Two-month recap
September 30, 2009Jon Brooks Comments OffOkay, we’ve been at this two months now, so seems like a good moment to take a look back at some of our favorite posts and user-generated material. Click away:
- McKvetch – McDonald’s Talk provides a forum for those who toil under the golden arches to grouse about their employer.
- Haikus for the times – Bad economy/means no big bonus for me/
Must steal more staplers - Wikipedia: Featured business, economic, and finance articles – from Panic of 1907 to Tulip Mania, the best biz-related content by the King of All User Gen sites
- Gold fever! – regular people looking for their own Eureka! moment
- Clunker love – video of reluctant participants in the Cash-for-Clunkers program
- Chronicle of a personal financial crisis – The Love in the Time of Foreclosure blog tells the ongoing story of one couple’s experience navigating the rocky waters of financial collapse .
- Signs o’ the times – Brian Lehrer’s Uncommon Indicators logs signs of the recession as observed by folks in the New York City area.
- Health care for the truly sick: A real-life example – The Wheelchair Kamikaze documents his experience coping with MS and discusses his awful experiences dealing with insurance companies
- Town-brawl meetings – hair-raising encounters between the angry right and members of Congress at this summer’s town-hall meetings, as documented on YouTube
- Musical economics – From Abba to Zeppelin offers song lyrics that instructors of economics may find useful in teaching economics.
- Owing in public – Blogging Away Debt autobiographically chronicles the financial trials, tribulations, and triumphs of the intrepid debtor Beks.
- Recession Blues – bunch o’ people all singin’ their own version of songs titled “Recession Blues,” on YouTube
- Fund and be funded – Kickstarter provides a funding platform where artists can post proposals and ask for donations in exchange for innovative products and services.
- Stuff unemployed people like – blog intended to bring some humor into the lives of those affected by the global economy, mostly by poking fun at them
- No car? No problem – The car-free movement takes to the Web.
- Health care horror stories – chilling tales of real-life encounters with the most dehumanizing insurance company practices
- How I got laid off (.com) – user-submitted end-of-the-line accounts
- Who are the Gold Bugs? – a look at those who believe that all currencies are eventually doomed to fail, making gold the only safe investment
- The jury’s out – online comments about doing jury duty in these economically fraught times
