My review of his book can be found on Amazon, and is reproduced here:
Aldon
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How do we determine if something has credibility, has quality? One way is
to look at credentials. Is the producer paid for what they do? A
'professional'? Are they doing it simply because they love it?
In the book The Cult of the Amateur http://ajkeen.com/e.htm , Andrew
Keen basically trashes 'Web 2.0'. Excerpt here http://ajkeen.com/e.htm
.
Here is a quote from the book:
The Web 2.0 revolution has peddled the promise of bringing more truth
to more people- more depth
of information, more
On 7/12/07, terry.rendon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the book The Cult of the Amateur http://ajkeen.com/e.htm , Andrew
Keen basically trashes 'Web 2.0'. Excerpt here http://ajkeen.com/e.htm
.
I was wondering what you all thought of the premise of this book???
Keen is the biggest troll
Hello Terry,
On 7/12/07, terry.rendon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
I was wondering what you all thought of the premise of this book???
Using the analogy of signal to noise... I'd say the noise has
increase quite alot. But so has the signal.
So although we've been flooded with alot of
The Web 2.0 revolution has peddled the promise of bringing more truth
to more people- more depth
of information, more global perspective, more unbiased opinion from
dispassionate observers. But this is
all a smoke screen. What the Web 2.0 revolution has really delivering is
superficial
Though Keen's book was filled with hyperbolic statements, there are parts of
his argument that I do agree with-- heck, without this group knowing, this
group agrees with it in parts.
Or don't folks remember how up in arms you were over the wikipedia entry on
videoblogging?
His point of mass
Anyone who promotes their book on Coast to Coast AM with Georgy Noory is
already on my list of windbags who just enjoy the sound of their own
voices slightly more than they enjoy the sound of cages being pointlessly
rattled.
--
Rhett.
http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime
