User Generated Literature, the reality TV of publishing

This is the kind of literature I'm talking about. They're published by these guys, who call themselves "the cheezburger network". Now I mean no disrespect - I subscribe to an unhealthy number of their RSS feeds, plus these related ones from other entrepreneurs:

• Texts From Last Night (note: may warp your worldview)
• Cake Wrecks (innocent but a bit arch)
• There, I Fixed It (very Wile E. Coyote)
• Acid Cow (weird, amazing, often funny)

A reality TV show is made by soliciting exhibitionists to improvise around a theme. They make their own humor and drama, and people watch. These websites are much the same: you come up with an idea--let's say, awkward family photos--publicize it, and watch the user submissions roll in. To make things easy on yourself, provide thumbs-up/thumbs-down buttons so your own readers can tell you what's funny. After a while, collect the highest rated ones and publish them as a book.

It's a business plan with a bottom line. Also: they're blogs.