BackgroundCurrent TV, the cable network, created by Al Gore, combines user-generated content and group voting to produce a 24-hour channel of cultural and news reporting. Current relies on a demographic of tech-savvy contributors to crowdsource 30 percent of the content at the 24-hour news channel. (We know that people contribute. But does anybody really watch it?) In an interview with NewAssignment.Net, Current TV futurist Robin Sloan discussed viewer created content (VC2) -- even viewer-created ad messages. "We never use the bottom-up process as an excuse for less-than-compelling content, though," he says. "it’s our challenge to harness it in a way that produces TV programming as good, or better than, what we make ourselves." Discuss
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