The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Reading today's post to Andrew Keen's Great Seduction blog, " The Children's Crusade ," reminds me of how much I hate the word "disintermediation" and the cult formed around it by Internet evangelists. Regular readers of this blog should know by now that I see a lot of value in intermediation, and I feel most strongly about the need for an intermediate party that stands between a writer and a reader....
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Broadcast.com billionaire and trailblazer for online video Mark Cuban wrote Saturday in his the best impression of Andrew Keen that internet video was ideal for snacking, but for the big events, people turn to broadcast television and HD. Cuban argues that “the platform is the message” and that HD television is where the game is [...]
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Reading the increased traffic on Andrew Keen's Great Seduction blog has reminded me of how little awareness our electorate seems to have of history. This should be no surprise in light of how much of that electorate continues to believe specious propositions, such as the one about Barack Obama being Muslim; but I have to wonder whether our national ignorance of history is as "induced" by media noise...
The 463: Inside Tech Policy (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
I'm an Internet cheerleader. It's a massive democratizing force. It's an efficiency machine. It creates untold economic opportunity. Sis Boom Bah. Boo Nicholas Carr. Hiss Andrew Keen. But, sometimes, it's important to recognize when the organic nature of the Internet...
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
The use of capitals in my title reflects an direct appropriation of the title of the English translation of the memoirs of Simone Signoret, Nostalgie n'est plus ce qu'elle était . It was provoked by the title of Andrew Keen's post today for his Great Seduction blog, " Trumanostalgia ." The basic point of this post was to call attention to a few recent incidents of Truman worship coming from the right...
First Drafts (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
Andrew Keen told me that the one glaring omission from our list of public intellectuals was Arianna Huffington, the Greek-born socialite who is turning American political media upside-down with her blog-cum-aggregator-cum-celebrity-gabfest the Huffington Post. I didn’t get it. After all, while the HuffPost may have a readership extending into the millions, and while it may even [...] ShareThis
paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Is Andrew Keen going soft? The writer's The Cult Of The Amateur book attracted much derision from Web 2.0 fanatics for its admonishment of their always-on, open-access, user-generated visions of utopia. But, writing in this morning's Independent , Keen has had a change of heart on at least one of the paradigms once in his crosshair… On web TV streamer Justin.tv : "Just another ephemeral web 2.0 thing,...
BuzzMachine (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Relevant to the discussion of curmudgeonliness…. My daughter asked me for an old book she could destroy in her art class tomorrow. I was so tempted to give her Andrew Keen’s and see what she could do to it. So tempted.
The Wardman Wire (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
There are some good pieces in the Media section of the Independent that are worth a look today. Here is my summary and notes, including some catching up with history from Andrew Keen.
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Andrew Keen's Great Seduction post yesterday, " The tyranny of free content ," may actually have less to do with the content itself than with what we might call "the work behind the content." The text behind his sermon came from a talk he gave to a conference of bookseller's called Digitize or Die : The content business is in crisis, if you want to look at the way it will go take a look at the music...
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
For any of my disagreements with Andrew Keen, I continue to read him because I continue to support the basic precepts of his Cult of the Amateur book, particularly those relating to his subtitle about "how the Internet is killing our culture." About a year ago, thanks to Book TV, I got to see Keen participate in a "debate" over this book, which was held at the Strand Bookstore in New York. I visited...
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
It was through " The American reawakening " posted by Andrew Keen on his Great Seduction blog that I discovered Gary Hart's Op-Ed contribution to The New York Times , entitled " America's Next Chapter ." Now that Barack Obama is the designated candidate for the Democratic party and he has made a strategic decision about funding his candidacy, the one "resource shortage" he will not be facing will be...
theory.isthereason (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
As seen on Howard Rheingold’s vlog: Whenever people refer me to pseudo-critics of social media (i.e. Andrew Keen), I refer them to Fred Turner or to Trebor Scholz, who actually know something about what they are criticizing. I recommend Scholz’ paper, What The MySpace Generation Need To Know About Working For Free for those who want [...]
charliebeckett.org (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
Andrew Keen’s book The Cult of The Amateur has turned him in to the arch-sceptic of the Internet. But his Independent column reminds us that he was himself an Internet entrepreneur who knows about this stuff. It’s just that he interprets its cultural effects differently to most Web 2.0 enthusiasts. So it’s no surprise that his review of [...]
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
I have just read Andrew Keen's latest blog post , "The America that we want back," with great interest, particularly since it emerged that many (if not all) of the "we" in that post are not Americans. I do not mean this in a pejorative, let alone sarcastic, sense: Whether it began with our winning our Revolutionary War or with the ratification of our Constitution, American has been perceived, particularly...
