Posted on 06/30/2007 11:52:46 AM PDT by shrinkermd
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.
Mr. Keen argues that “what the Web 2.0 revolution is really delivering is superficial observations of the world around us rather than deep analysis, shrill opinion rather than considered judgment.” In his view Web 2.0 is changing the cultural landscape and not for the better. By undermining mainstream media and intellectual property rights, he says, it is creating a world in which we will “live to see the bulk of our music coming from amateur garage bands, our movies and television from glorified YouTubes, and our news made up of hyperactive celebrity gossip, served up as mere dressing for advertising.” This is what happens, he suggests, “when ignorance meets egoism meets bad taste meets mob rule.”
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In the author's mind, this apparently never happens at the New York Times.
And THAT is where Keen's argument goes over the cliff.
The socialist "mainstream media" cut its own throat. Talk radio and the internet simply filled a vaccuum. The world is much better off.
The mainstream media has no one to blame except themselves for their "undermining".
They are far too often, just plain incorrect and always with a liberal bias. They drove their customers away in droves.
A peck or two of sour grapes there! It chaps the butts of “professionals” who find that they have competition from regular folks.
-—Mr. Keen argues that “what the Web 2.0 revolution is really delivering is superficial observations of the world around us rather than deep analysis, shrill opinion rather than considered judgment.”-—
Bugger off, Keen. What do you think the networks were about? Public schools?
EXTRA EXTRA....READ ALL ABOUT IT....MSM HEADS EXPLODE OVER IMPENDING EXTINCTION....EXTRA EXTRA...
Bwahahahahahahahahaha!
"Deep analysis" is code for "unchallenged liberal pontification". And for what ever it's worth, the publishing industry is still pumping out plenty of it.
"Deep analysis" is code for "unchallenged liberal pontification". And for what ever it's worth, the publishing industry is still pumping out plenty of it.
Ding, ding, ding - we have a winnah!
Huh? I thought Web 2.0 was a term that referred to the collection of new technologies that are used to provide a much more desktop-app-like user experience to the users of web sites, not web sites that cater to narcissists who want to share the boring trivialities of their boring little lives with other losers.
Nothing like a new twitter, or tweeter site, or whatever the stupid things are called:
10:57 AM. Woke up early today
11:09 AM. Got out of bathroom. Man don't go in there for a while.
11:23 AM got off phone with my old man. that jerk said I shold lok for a job. Everybody I know who's 24 is still living at home working on their creative outlets too. He just doesn't understand
11:45 AM Gassed up the Miata. George Bush is raping me with these gas prices. And not in a good way. going to get lunch with the boys. Theres a trendy new place with the best cocktails downtown
we will “live to see the bulk of our music coming from amateur garage bands, our movies and television from glorified YouTubes, and our news made up of hyperactive celebrity gossip, served up as mere dressing for advertising.”
Sounds better than what’s on the boob tube every day.
Clifton Webb could do that speech justice.
Maybe he should accept the inevitable and move to Venezuala where he’ll be happy.
Saying "mainstream media" and "intellectual" in the same sentence seems to clash in the reader's mind....
It’s a fricken riot!
How could we peons possible know the truth without the help of the likes of Mr Keen or the NYT?
Good point; my dad showed me the difference one year purely by accident; he had bought about a dozen bags of cement to use in making steps from the house to the street and we left them on the grass next to where we had dug out for the forms.
That night it began to rain and didn’t let up until the next evening.
When we went to open the first bag it was rock hard.
Spot on. Think of it as swimming against an ocean current.
There’s an old story about a city fellow asking a local farmer if a puddle on the road was deep or not; the farmer looked at him and said he didn’t reckon it was all that deep since he had just noticed it that morning.
When the city fellow drove out and sank to the bumpers, he leapt out of the car fuming and screaming at the old gent who was stroking his whiskers and muttering, “Funny, only came up to here on my ducks,” as he hitched up his pant legs and waded on through.
IOW, what has the opportunity cost of all these gatekeepers been?
About a gazillion carbon credits.
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