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The Jeff Pulver Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
#140conf London took place yesterday at the O2 Indigo in London. In the end, 67 people spoke in 35 sessions during the course of the day. Quite a number of people from the UK media were in attendance. Below are links to coverage the event received in the UK media. - Channel 4: Stephen Fry leads Twitter conference - Financial Times: Stephen Fry and the new kings of Twitter - Guardian: #140con: The...
Veg Plotting (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Saturday was one of those days which ends in a cloud of happiness. Firstly I attended a Forgotten Carols workshop led by Ali Burns - a descendant of Robert Burns - who has found and researched a wealth of traditional seasonal songs. She's also set many of the texts she's found to her own music, including one of our choir's favourites, The Field Mice's Carol . We were based at Holy Trinity Church in...
The Jeff Pulver Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
When I look at the schedule for the upcoming 140 Characters Conference: Exploring the State of NOW, taking place in London on 17 November, the first word that comes to my mind is diversity. Over the course of just one day there will be 31 sessions presented on the O2 Indigo stage, covering a diverse set of topics including: Reputation, Brands, Education, Media, Small Business, Sports, Public Safety,...
Motor Industry Codes (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Code subscriber Andrew Ferris is making the headlines following his recent public statement in support of the Motor Industry Code of Practice for Service and Repair. A long established independent garage operator, Ferris Brothers in Cardiff, Andrew is a keen supporter of the Code and what it has helped his business achieve. In a press release issued by the Department of Business Innovation and Skills,...
Andrea Vascellari (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Episode: VMC #193 – Andrew Keen, 3 Tags The 3 Tags serie, is a self-folksonomy introduction to some of the bright minds I know in the web industry. It’s a first input to let you then connect, network and discover more about them… I’m sure you all remember his Digital Vertigo keynote at Next09 . [...]
Ensaios Imperfeitos (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
By JOHN FREEMAN Reviewed by Andrew Keen In May 1844, Samuel F. B. Morse sent America’s first electronic message. This “telegram,” which Morse sent from Baltimore, arrived at the speed of electricity in Washington D.C. with the biblical message: “WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT'” Morse’s 19th-century telegraph became the 20th-century telephone which then became the 21st century...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
We've tried to articulate this before when various (often self-proclaimed) elitists like Nicholas Carr, Andrew Keen or Mark Helprin bash the rise of social media or the fact that "anyone" can publish. They love to highlight all of the bad and ridiculous stuff that people decide to publish. And, no doubt, plenty more bad stuff gets published. But... at the same time, a lot more good stuff...
1938 Media (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Andrew Keen wrote a book a few years ago called "The Cult Of The Amateur (http://
frog design™ (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
While 500 thought leaders from the US and abroad are convening at PopTech 2009 to “reimagine America,” Bono, in a much discussed op-ed column in Sunday’s NY Times , reminds the world of the “idea of America” – and defends the president who has set out to reinvigorate it: “From a development perspective, you couldn’t dream up a better dream team to pursue...
mathewingram.com/work (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
One of the things that Clay Shirky mentioned in the panel with Andrew Keen that I moderated at Ryerson University recently (my post with video here, tweet-stream here and live-blog here) was an idea that he has also written about before on his blog: namely, that one of the principal functions of a newspaper was [...]
Nieman Journalism Lab (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Our own Mathew Ingram moderated a panel discussion last week between two luminaries in the future-of-content-online space: Clay Shirky (who readers of this site know well) and Andrew Keen, whose thoughts on the subject can probably be sussed out from the title of his book, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing [...]
Telegraph Media Technology and Telecoms (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Newspapers risk being made redundant by the internet. They had better wake up to this reality writes Andrew Keen.
mathewingram.com/work (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
So I moderated a panel last night entitled “What’s Next For News,” as part of the kickoff for Wordstock, an annual event put on by the Ryerson University School of Journalism in Toronto. As you can see from the photo (taken by Wayne MacPhail), I played middleman between veteran social-media skeptic Andrew Keen and “media [...]
Thoughts of Nigel (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Artists who depend on selling recorded material in order to make a living are doomed. That was the conclusion of Andrew Keen speaking at the end of the Art of Digital event in Liverpool last week. Keen,the controversial author of the Cult of the Amateur ,told an audience made up of mainly artistic people that the only ones that would survive were those that were funded by public money. According to...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
David Karp lectured the twittering masses on acting "classy," Lance Armstrong held forth on what Real Men don't do on the internet, and Andrew Keen detested your inspirational quotes. The Twitterati...
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