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Andrew Keen's Dumb Punditry

The Vancouver Sun published a set of predictions this year and they included the words of Andrew Keen, notorious skeptic of the amateur. When he's not drumming up controversy to peddle his book about the...

opinion by mtippett | 50 wks ago | updated 50 wks ago
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ricknight

Will the Financial Crisis Kill 'Freeconomics'?

Author Andrew Keen does not believe in the so-called 'wisdom of crowds' and, in our current volatile economic climate, he believes -- even less -- in "web businesses that rely on free labor and crowdsourcing to...

created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Jarrett Martineau

Storming the News Gatekeepers

You can practically hear these MSM guys quaking with fear and anger-- and not just at the prospect of having to deal with 'citizen journalists', but at even having to accept their very existence. But as Faye...

created by Jarrett Martineau | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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mtippett

Defending the Amateur

Andrew Keen has put out a book attacking citizen journalism among other things. Pundits have called Andrew Keen the Ann Coulter of the anti-citizen journalism movement. Lawrence Lessig says that Keen's...

created by mtippett | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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WHO PUT THE "CULT" IN "CULTURE"? On Andrew Keen and Over Thinking One's Own Limitations

phillipnyc

WHO PUT THE "CULT" IN "CULTURE"? On Andrew Keen and Over Thinking One's Own ...

My response to Andrew Keen, and his new book: The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture book which trashes “Western” (American) Culture from a wholly British, elitist...

created by phillipnyc | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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ricknight

‘Amateur' charge infuriates blogosphere

"Internet culture, often portrayed as the vanguard of progress, is actually a jungle peopled by intellectual yahoos and digital thieves, according to a Silicon Valley entrepreneur-turned-dissenter. Andrew Keen, a...