In Andrew Keen’s book, The Cult of the Amateur… “makes the case that the internet, particularly Web 2.0 with all of it’s socialization and democratization, is making us all idiots.” Read a passionate review of it here. Audible has it and I will surely be spending this month’s credit on it.
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i thought i was going to see a cat picture
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/17/andrew-keen-on-colbe.html
yeah, i saw that episode, but forgot about it when I ran across Lawerence’s post. However, I still think the book will be a valuable read, and here’s why:
Truth is never one extreme or another. Just like there are two sides to every coin, truth is never heads nor tails. Its the edge of the coin. In other words, if you can get your head around both extremes, the truth is somewhere in between.
As a true believer of User Generated Content and the Web 2.0 revolution, I can still admit that most of it is crap, including half of my own output. This book is just that other extreme, and should make me re-evaluate my truths, in order to build a bigger, better truth, which in turn should make me a better developer. Or at least that’s the thought behind posting this.
D00d, good point.
I still would check the library for the book first
Thanks for the nice complement. Passionate. I like that word. And yet, that almost seems to be the problem as Keen points out.
Well, as you say, we are all guilty of it.
I like your last paragraph of your comment above. I think that’s the key thing: to re-evaluate our own truths so that we help, not hurt, the situation and don’t contribute to the noise, but lead the masses out of the noise into enlightenment.
That’s probably a tall order for a personal blog or a Facebook profile (ha ha), but I’ve been dwelling on some possible solutions to get people thinking and heading in the right direction.
I hope to post them soon for public critique and comment (and probably a beatdown by the web 2.0 yuppies). Where’s my Captain America shield?
I look forward to the posts, and will be downloading the book (despite Damien’s caution to check it out at the library) this weekend to see what all the fuss is about.
So how was it?
I downloaded it, but haven’t sync’d my iPod yet. I’ll lend you a copy so we can sit around at lunch and thumb our noses at it… or thumbs up each other, or whatever geeks do when they consume the same content together
I’ve listened to the first hour of this book so rather than responding here (too many initial impressions), I have posted my thoughts in a new blog post. Go there to keep up on this discussion.