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
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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.
