Andrew Keen has gone insane. The author, who has railed against the Internet for destroying our culture, now says we all must become self-promoting, Facebook-friending, constantly Twittering monkeys like unemployed videoblogger Robert Scoble. "We are all Scoble now," Keen writes. Who? Scoble, a tech...

My problem with what Nick Carr is saying about Wikipedia here — as well as in his book The Big Switch – is that he always seems to assume that Wikipedia constitutes the totality of most searches for information online. I suppose it does for some people, but I have a hard time accepting t...

Lot’s of people have written about possible similarities between the current economic mess and the beginnings of the Great Depression in the late 20’s and early 30’s. Andrew Keen, author of the anti-web screed The Cult of the Amateur, heads right off the deep end and tries to argue...

President-elect Barack Obama will soon be naming Cass Sunstein, an old friend of his from their University of Chicago Law School days together, the new head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). OIRA oversees regulation throughout the U.S. government. Basically, Sunste...

Was muss ich denn da auf den Seiten vom Handelsblatt lesen? Web 2.0 macht dumm!? Ist das ein Scherz? Anscheinend nicht. In dem Artikel von Werner Pluta wird der literarischen Erguss von Andrew Keen mit seiner sehr persönlichen Ansicht über die Wirkung von Social Media auf die Volksseele vorgestell...

I read Andrew Keen’s brilliant book The Cult of the Amateur over the weekend. I read it in one sitting. I’m stunned. I’m shocked. I feel lost. In short, with a mere 200 pages, Andrew convinced a hardnose like me that I’m wrong. About everything. About a great many things havi...

It pisses me off to no end, when people assume that with modern technology, with the ubiquitousness of social networking and user-generated content, and with My, Live or Windows Spaces everywhere, blogging has now become “for everyone” and that what I’m doing, or you perhaps, is ea...

It's been more than a year now since Andrew Keen's indictment of the Internet in The Cult of the Amateur.  According to Keen, the sad result of recent trends in how information is circulated has been the deterioration of authoritative sources and uncertainty over the relative importance of stor...

It's been more than a year now since Andrew Keen's indictment of the Internet in The Cult of the Amateur. According to Keen, the sad result of recent trends in how information is circulated has been the deterioration of authoritative sources and uncertainty over the relative importance of stories. I...

Andrew Keen must be laughing his balls off over this. That little prick was right about all of it. Fast Company will be studied about this. In fact I know they are right now, for I had two Universities New Media Chairs contact me to discuss Fast Company after they watched my video and then watched S...