Power of the People’s Media - My Movie Review Ranks Above the NY Times and IMDb.

November 2, 2006

I was very pleasantly surprised when I discovered that a movie review I wrote for “The Departed” was ranking in the top 10 on Google for “the departed movie review“, “the departed movie analysis”, “the departed movie mistakes” and host of other related keywords.

This review, which really was just a quick blog post I put up here on October 8 was submitted to the website associated content (a user publishing site with articles, videos, profiles, and other web 2.0 features) is now ranked above hundreds of powerful websites with professional editorial reviews like the New York Times, Imdb, and TV guide.

This isn’t just a little thing, people have been heralding the arrival of indie content and the ability for unknown individuals to get their words and creative works out there. Usually though, behind all the ideology, the indie content producers who actually get read or watched are people like popular bloggers who have devoted large portions of their lives to developing their online presence. An online presence that rivals their professional competition.

What makes this example so surprising and exciting to me is that this was just an article I submitted to a user publishing site. Anyone reading this could create an account in 5 minutes at associated content and submit whatever they want, no large online presence, no time requirement of half your life, all you need is something to say. If you want to be heard, you can. It no longer requires any money, it no longer requires any specified level of education, you just need a voice and the motivation to put it out there. Whether it be video, articles, audio, whatever, if you can create it, you can get an audience.

In fact, I personally invite all those reading this entry to join Associated content, it’s free and they even pay you for your submissions. Be heard.
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Note: That movie review I wrote for The Departed has already recieved a response on associated content by Krista Janesen entitled “The Departed: A Response to Solomon Rothman’s Review”

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