Inspired by Lawrence Salberg’s review of Andrew Keen’s Cult of the Amateur, I downloaded the book with this month’s credit on my Audible account. I got an hour into the audio book today, and so far it’s like listening to Rush Limbaugh talk about the “Liberal Agenda”. 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.
With that out of the way, I agree with some of the points Andrew Keen makes, just not the conclusions he makes about them. Here are a handful of my initial impressions, stated conversationally as a response to his ideas: Continue reading ‘Andrew Keen, Full of Fail’
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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.
Tim O’Reilly, in referring to the “Web 2.0″ Internet operating system:
The key question is what kind of platform we’re collectively building. There is strong evidence that the platform that’s emerging is more like Linux than it is like Windows. That is, no one player is going to own all the pieces.
More on Why search competition isn’t the point.
And by supporting I mean, how many non-business sites have you upgraded to a paying account with?
I am proud to support:
How many of you own a site that has a premium account that you charge money for? Do you find that you are more apt to support another site that you find useful because of this? What is your criteria for making the leap to a paid account?
Continue reading ‘How many sites are you supporting?’
There’s something interesting happening right now. Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper.
A really interesting take when you apply Moore’s Law to the act of starting a Web 2.0 company. Read the entire essay, which was adapted from a Future of Web Apps keynote speech.
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