OT? - Freep to begin to publish user generated content
http://www.freep.com/article/20100120/SPORTS18/100119051/1050/rss15
Was directed to this link by a twitter feed from a Tigers blogger I follow. The Free Press is asking for user generated content. Love the last paragraph of the article
Write about whatever you want. Think the 1946 Tigers would beat today's bunch? Cool. Want Matthew Stafford to be a player-coach? Terrific. Want the NHL to contract to the Original Six? Give us your plan. Want to write a counterpoint to a column by Mitch Albom, Michael Rosenberg or Drew Sharp? Have at it.
January 20th, 2010 at 9:37 PM ^
What? User generated content? NO! Welcome to 1997, Freep. Enjoy Marcy Playground.
January 21st, 2010 at 12:03 AM ^
Hey, don't diss Marcy Playground. Their self-titled album is solid.
January 21st, 2010 at 8:28 AM ^
Exactly, sex and candy was the first song I learned to play on my guitar.
January 20th, 2010 at 9:43 PM ^
is impossible. It implies that Rosenberg actually made a point in the first place.
January 20th, 2010 at 9:45 PM ^
I'm glad to hear they're trying to raise the journalistic standards there.
January 20th, 2010 at 9:54 PM ^
Fucking Hacks! Enough said!
January 20th, 2010 at 9:57 PM ^
If you have shitty journalists (even worse than most), get free content.
By the way, real Michigan fans won't visit or "publish" on that pile of crap.
January 20th, 2010 at 10:01 PM ^
I have plenty of content to share with the Freep and its readers.
By "content", of course, I mean Xerox copies of my butt cheeks. I expect these will increase readership while also raising the journalistic credibility of the paper if/when they are published.
January 20th, 2010 at 11:15 PM ^
I'll second your butt cheek idea, and would encourage others to do so as well. There's a measure of fun to be had in the thought of a steady stream of thousands of butt cheeks showing up in the Freep's mailbox.
January 20th, 2010 at 11:20 PM ^
Just make sure you sit on the edge of the copier so you don't get any balls in the photo. The Freep is still a family paper (while butt-cheeks are hilarious to people of all ages, balls apparently cross a terrible line). Also, there's a decent chance those buttholes might try to charge you with some sort of interstate sex crime if you get just a little bit of teste satchel into the pic.
January 20th, 2010 at 10:24 PM ^
Yea all of the content will come from the MSU and OSU idiots.The Freep just sucks and so do there backwood redneck followers. I live in Dallas and would rather read the Dallas mourning news than follow the rag of a news paper. Haters beware 2010-2011 we will not take a back seat to (no-one!)
January 20th, 2010 at 10:29 PM ^
They've been publishing "user generated" content since Rosenberg started talking about Rodriguez.
January 20th, 2010 at 10:52 PM ^
It would be nice to take the freep and Rosenpuke to task for trying to tear down UM football while propping up MSU's team and coach, but I still boycott, and any contribution I make will help make them money. What a quandry.
January 20th, 2010 at 11:19 PM ^
they're trying to limit new blogs on topics the freep covers. people will think they would rather brag that they 'write for the freep' than post on www.detroittigerssecretsxxx.com
January 20th, 2010 at 11:27 PM ^
That will last about as long as it takes for them to realize that the blogosphere is better written and more thoughtful than the mopes they pay to write the columns.
January 21st, 2010 at 12:16 AM ^
So this means Albom's columns are going to be stuck right next to the work of a bunch of Google masters, right?
January 21st, 2010 at 7:38 AM ^
EMO/2001 has submitted 12 different takes on next years depth chart.
Too soon?
January 21st, 2010 at 12:12 PM ^
User-generated content can't be any worse than the crap that's usually in the freep.