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Book Description
From Publishers Weekly
Keen's relentless "polemic" is on target about how a sea of amateur content threatens to swamp the most vital information and how blogs often reinforce one's own views rather than expand horizons. But his jeremiad about the death of "our cultural standards and moral Continue
Critics
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guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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Fretting about the internet
In its early days, the telephone was expected to be of most use in listening to musical concerts. If it had been, it would hardly have done much harm, despite its acoustic shortcomings: more people would have been attracted to live performances, havi ... (read full critics)
spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
4 Reviews
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Andrew Keen Interview
I don't agree with everything is on this book, but I sincerely believe we need more books like this to fully appreciate the extent, dangers, and consequences of the web2.0 revolution.
On July 13, 2007 I had the pleasure and the honor to interview Andrew Keen for the Novedge blog. Here is the l ... (continue)
Franco Folini said on Jul 9, 2007 | Add your feedback
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Thought-provoking & short-sighted.
While there are quite a few good ideas in there, it seems tainted by nonsense such as "every single song download is a lost album sale", and "amateur music and videos on YouTube and MySpace are entirely to blame for every music and video store that closes". ... (continue)
ericsamson said on Sep 21, 2008 | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Hardcover 240 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0385520808
- ISBN-13: 9780385520805
- Publisher: Currency
- Pub date: Jun 05, 2007
- Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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The Cult of the Amateur
Keen was once a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, but has since undergone a Damascene conversion and now views the so-called Web 2.0 of YouTube, MySpace, Wikipedia and millions of blogs as culturally corrosive. This is a celebration of traditional media a ... (read full critics)