Comments on: I’m in UR internetz, stealin all UR cultures

By: Eric Marden

Eric Marden — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:24:45 +0000

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.

By: Andrew Keen, Full of Fail on xentek.net

Andrew Keen, Full of Fail on xentek.net — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:19:39 +0000

Andrew Keen, Full of Fail…

Which is to say, his diatribes are made up of lots of false assumptions, punctuated with moments of accuracy, smeared in generalizations and couched in a rhetorical argument that only make sense if you believe the aforementioned assumptions. … Howe…

By: Eric Marden

Eric Marden — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:04:25 +0000

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

By: Damien

Damien — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:40:40 +0000

So how was it?

By: Eric Marden

Eric Marden — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:37:25 +0000

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.

By: Lawrence Salberg

Lawrence Salberg — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:48:12 +0000

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?

By: Damien

Damien — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:27:56 +0000

D00d, good point.

I still would check the library for the book first

By: Eric Marden

Eric Marden — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:25:21 +0000

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.

By: Damien

Damien — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:54:56 +0000

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/17/andrew-keen-on-colbe.html

By: amy

amy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:25:37 +0000

i thought i was going to see a cat picture