Fun With User Generated Content! Your Bob Dylan-Approved Message Here

God bless the Internet. Only just yesterday our columnist Andrew Potter wrote about how, in the world of Web 2.0, we enjoyed countless "web-based applications that foster interactivity, modular interoperability and collaboration...that allow people to share and revise content at will." Boom! Today I find yet another, and totally brilliant, example of this: A user-generated "Subterranean Homesick Blues" video app that lets you input your own personal message — and which a young Bob Dylan subsequently holds up on cards for your viewing pleasure. It's a brilliant app, and brilliant marketing — the best way to get people to post your content is to make them think it's their content. The application, available on the official website for "Dylan," the latest collection of the artist's greatest hits, (NB: We saw this brilliant seeding of consumer content as user-generated content with the Ikea Facebook app last month.) It is especially brilliant when used as a tool for social commentary and messages about standing up to the MAN! — which is why the source of this discovery for me was so perfect. I found it on the personal Tumblr of none other than Peter Feld, branding expert, political consultant, longtime activist and one our our columnists, who posted this message in Dylan's hands: "You don’t need a Lieberman to know which way the wind blows. Tell Sen. Reid to pass health care reform using reconciliation, which requires only 51 votes." The video struck me as the perfect use of that kind of app — with an exhortation to buy Dylan's new album, of course. The video is on the next page — Peter set it to auto-play and I know some of you are actually working, so I didn't want to alarm you. I also included a few extra videos for fun — which you should have, too, by clicking and making your own video here. >>>NEXT: Peter Feld Makes User-Generated Video Just Like A Woman Here's Peter Feld's video, giving Harry Reid some advice: >>>NEXT: Feed Hungry New Yorkers! Bob Dylan Says So! Here's one in support of one of our favorite charities here at Mediaite, RobinHoodNYC's "Food For Good" campaign: >>>NEXT: What's That Blowin' In The Wind? Why, It's A Message From Mediaite....and Bob Dylan! And finally, here's a message from all of us here at Mediaite... Awwww! Thanks, Bob Dylan, for this very fun web app. You can wander around our neighborhood and look in our windows any time. Watch the original "Subterranean Homesick Blues" video here, and cry just like a woman here.

Fun With User Generated Content! Your Bob Dylan-Approved Message Here

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Fun With User Generated Content! Your Bob Dylan-Approved Message Here

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