Summertime is all about having fun and listening to your favourite tunes while doing it. Six Flags, Jive Records and Pop-Tarts have come together to make both possible for the next American pop sensation with the new user-generated content (UGC) contest Fame, Fortune and Flags.

Solo artists or bands can submit an original music video for either a song they have written or one of the pre-approved list of music from artists such as Usher, Justin Timerberlake, Pink or Jordin Sparks. Videos are due by July 15, 2010 for a chance to perform live at a Six Flags Park. (more…)

Online fundraising campaigns have the reputation for being successful in the social media world without any of that success actually translating to physical donations. That’s not the case with the current Haiti relief efforts. Read below for a few of the initiatives taking place that harness user-generated sites to raise real money for Haiti. (more…)

Do you want a free download of Pearl Jam’s new single? You can have it, but you have to tweet about it first. Pearl Jam is using the digital media house Culture Jam’s Twitter application to trade tweets for an iTunes download of their single “Just Breathe”. (more…)

More and more readers are talking about the decline of print media, and its growing competition on the web.

Publications like The Rocky Mountain News and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer have disappeared, and even the great Canwest media empire is walking a line dangerously close to bankruptcy. Online - new user-generated hyperlocal news sites are popping up in an attempt to replace them, when profit seems to be a rare commodity. (more…)