News - The Cult of the Amateur
By Michael Fitzgerald, The Record, Stockton, Calif. Feb. 27--Recently, several storm-tossed staffers of this paper wrote stoic accounts of newsroom cutbacks and their reassignments caused by print journalism's decline. If this city's newspaper is under assault, that's a big deal.
By Donald, Linda Challenging the mad Utopians of Web 2.0 This is a lively, readable and thoughtprovoking book about the Web 2.0 revolution. In The Cult of the Amateur, digital media entrepreneur Andrew Keen outlines how today's Internet is killing our culture and assaulting our economy.
By Jennings, David In Version 2.0 of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith will have a 'preferred customer' gold card for Googlezon, the corporation that results from the merger of the internet giants Google and Amazon.
Internet pioneer Andrew Keen believes that narcissistic bloggers and illegal downloads are undermining our culture and deceiving our children, he tells Ciar Byrne new media interview A new voice has penetrated the chorus of internet evangelists, with a warning note about the dangers of Web 2.0.
