Heretics at the Modem
Posted on October 27, 2006
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I generally like heretical thinkers so I want to spare a thought for he guy who is risking 24 hours of abuse across the informed blogosphere for saying that the internet sucks and then saying why, in detail.
He even quotes Andrew Keen who’s also had to duck the brickbats recently. I don’t agree with them and yet I hope their critics rise to the debat rather than dismissing what they’ve got to say. I hope. Mark Evans starts well. I think it’s all worth an airing. The web changes how we think, write, communicate and remember. That’s important enough to chase down.
This is the Keen quote: Andrew Keen, a former Internet entrepreneur turned heretic, argues that this “digital utopianism” is playing havoc with our economy and politics. His forthcoming book, titled The Culture of the Amateur, is based on the idea that the onslaught of blogs, wikis and social networking websites is destroying our culture by celebrating mediocrity and devaluing talent. “The cult of the amateur is digital utopianism’s most seductive delusion. . . It suggests, mistakenly, that everyone has something interesting to say,” he wrote earlier this year, ironically, on his own blog.
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