The Blogosphere is up in arms over Andrew Keen’s new book, The Cult of the Amateur. Keen deliberately set out to tweak the mavens of Web 2.0 – and he is succeeding. This is great fun to witness, because said mavens often have all the self-righteousness of revolutionaries, at least when it comes to the virtues of Web 2.0, and are thus eminently tweakable.
Keen decries everything that he imagines to be wrong with the internet – especially the mediocre work of amateurs. Free but substandard content is apparently destroying whole industries, particularly our culture industries. He hates the fact…
