The articles says: 'Empowered by Web 2.0 technology, we can all become citizen journalists, citizen videographers, citizen musicians. Empowered by this technology, we will be able to write in the morning, direct movies in the afternoon, and make music in the evening.
Sounds familiar? It's eerily similar to Marx's seductive promise about individual self-realization in his German Ideology:'
I don't see the conection because I know what Communism delivers to the people.
Whereas in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes,
I don't see the connection because I know what Communism delivers.
Out of WEB 2.0, I see Democracy. I see all the people having the right to put their two cents in. I could even see Technology knocking out Congress. We put a computer in everyones home. We go home at night and read about a bill that is going to be voted on (it's written in common man language). We then maybe talk about it with family and freinds and then we all go vote on it. We the people could become our very own Congress. As far as I am concerned, Hollywood is Communist and WEB 2.0 is freedom from their propaganda.
I may be wrong, what say you?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/15/opinion/main1320641_page2.shtml
I have to be correct about this if CBS printed the article.
This author sounds paranoid, that's my opinion.
I get this from Wikipedia:
To some extent Web 2.0 has become a buzzword, incorporating whatever is newly popular on the Web (such as tags and podcasts). A consensus on its exact meaning has not yet been reached.
Until somebody explains just what it is, I'm not going to be afraid, especially not by somebody who's just throwing out names like Marx, Spengler, Kafka, Bono, and Mozart to show off.
To some extent, Keen's nightmare has already happened. Fifty years ago everybody lined up for Hitchcock or John Wayne or Gregory Peck movies. Today when you go into a video store there are hundreds of new pictures by unknown directors. It doesn't mean that the movies are getting worse, just that it's hard to know who's who.
Chaos is here, like it or not. I really doubt big media of one sort or another are going to crawl up and die or the heavens will fall because outsiders get more of an audience on the Internet.
I thought Web 2.0 was bought and paid for by the RIAA, MPAA and the leftist media/press to destroy any free music, videos, news, writen texts (both fiction and place like FR) and porn that is not controled by those RIAA, MPAA and the leftist media/press in a "pay per play/listen/read" format.