Information Architecture

Content

Despite the proliferation of User Generated Content (UGC) such as blogs, comments, notes, annotations, recommendations, ratings, reviews, and the like, the great majority of websites are currently limited to content published by their publishers or owners. Future websites will become collages of content coming from different sources including publishers, visitors, users, and contributors like pundits or bloggers. Such collaboration and corroboration make the published content more comprehensive, convincing, connected, and viral causing websites to become hubs which increases their searchability, accessibility, meritocracy, and ultimately, their visibility in the websphere. Vice versa, the absence of such independent validation of the content will lead websites to their mediocrity, and eventually, to their demise.