It’s an aside to Kathryn Greenhill’s larger point, that all this 2.0 stuff is about a shifting power to the user, but she places L2 somewhere on Ghandi’s continuum of change between ridicule and fight.
The photo above (original by Monster) is in support of Greenhill’s larger point: control is shifting. Trains were once seen as [...]
Posted September 12, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy. Tags: change, competition, control, l2, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, locus of control, railroads vs. automobiles. 6 Comments.
I wasn’t planning on posting much about Keen’s Cult of the Amateur, but I did. And now I find myself posting about it again. Thing is, I’m a sucker for historical analogy, and Clay Shirky yesterday posted a good one that compared the disruptive effects of mechanized cloth production to today’s internet.
Yes, that’s actually the [...]
Posted July 11, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: anarchy, Andrew Keen, Clay Shirky, control, disruptive technology, internet, luddism, luddite, The Cult of the Amateur, web 2.0. Be the first one.
Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur; How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture is getting a lot of attention from usually quiet corners of the web, and I’ve had to quell the urge to write a story under the headline “Andrew Keen Tells YouTubers to Eat Spinach.”
Keen’s argument rests on the belief that “culture” [...]
Posted July 10, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: anarchy, Andrew Keen, control, internet, The Cult of the Amateur, web 2.0. 3 Comments.
I have a sort of guilt complex about looking at home theater issues. Nonetheless, I’ve been building one piecemeal ever since I found an incredible deal on a video projector. Now I’m working on assembling a video jukebox of sorts and I need to face the remote control stumbling block.
That’s why I like the Logitech [...]
Posted September 26, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: control, harmony 520, home theater control, home theater remote, home theater remote control, logitech, logitech harmony, logitech harmony 520, logitech harmony remote, logitech harmony remote control, remote, remote control. 2 Comments.