amateurs… June 30, 2007 - 02:39
Posted by dkoder in news, ohh life, web.trackback
amateur invasion everywhere!
next on my shopping list…. the cult of the amateur – andrew keen
review by the new york times here.
Digital utopians have heralded the dawn of an era in which Web 2.0 — distinguished by a new generation of participatory sites like MySpace.com and YouTube.com, which emphasize user-generated content, social networking and interactive sharing — ushers in the democratization of the world: more information, more perspectives, more opinions, more everything, and most of it without filters or fees. Yet as the Silicon Valley entrepreneur Andrew Keen points out in his provocative new book, “The Cult of the Amateur,” Web 2.0 has a dark side as well.
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