Andrew Keen on Web 2.0
June 12th, 2007 | Published in Internet, Culture, Technology | 2 Comments
I found this lecture by Andrew Keen very interesting about “Web 2.0,” general media literacy, the need for gatekeepers, etc. I loved his phrase “Twittering ourselves to death.”
June 12th, 2007 at 5:38 pm (#)
What on earth? Libertarians… “people with no respect for any kinds of authority.”
This gentleman seems like a sophist, and a curmudgeon.
June 12th, 2007 at 6:02 pm (#)
I’m not so sure. He is critiquing Web 2.0 culture, which is certainly libertarian. He is arguing that there needs to be authority, not just a democratic web. I think I agree with him there — pure democracy is chaos. That’s why we’re a Republic — and why democracies crash.
Anyway, I found him interesting and a breath of fresh air — most people drink the kool-aid and don’t think about this sort of stuff.
Josh