"In his provocative book _The Cult of the Amateur_, Andrew Keen
discusses how blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's
user-generated media are destroying our economy, culture, and values.
In this excerpt, he talks about the difficulty of knowing the truth
about anything on today's internet."

See excerpt at:
http://lifestyle.sympatico.msn.ca/Ca...abc=abc&date=F

I'm not sure I like Andrew Keen; he seems to want professional
or certified "experts" to decide what content we'll have access to.

Sean_Q_

On Aug 21, 10:05*am, Sean_Q_ <nos...@no.sapm> wrote:
> "In his provocative book _The Cult of the Amateur_, Andrew Keen
> discusses how blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's
> user-generated media are destroying our economy, culture, and values.
> In this excerpt, he talks about the difficulty of knowing the truth
> about anything on today's internet."
>
> See excerpt at:http://lifestyle.sympatico.msn.ca/Ca...ernet/Special+...
>
> I'm not sure I like Andrew Keen; he seems to want professional
> or certified "experts" to decide what content we'll have access to.

So you want me to gather up the pitch forks and you get the torches?
Or maybe we could make it a scavenger hunt for appropriate "Irrate
Villagers" equipment. Oh, think someone could figure out a way to
carry the buckets of hot pitch/tar? Definately going to need a large
quantity of feathers, rails, scythes etc. Hey this could be one of the
funnest reeky events since the mid 90's!

p.s. censorship like he presents is right up there with racism...zero
tolerence for it.
--
Keith

On Aug 21, 9:05 am, Sean_Q_ <nos...@no.sapm> wrote:
> "In his provocative book _The Cult of the Amateur_, Andrew Keen
> discusses how blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's
> user-generated media are destroying our economy, culture, and values.
> In this excerpt, he talks about the difficulty of knowing the truth
> about anything on today's internet."

Sounds like a crock of shit to me.

With the number of things destroying our economy, culture,
and values ever since the founding of the republic, it's absolutely
amazing that there's anything left.

If he's claiming you couldn't find as much bad information
as you wanted before the birth of the internet, I think
he's very much mistaken.

What's needed is some better education in critical thinking,
not protection from bad information or bad logic.

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:05:06 GMT, Sean_Q_ <nospam@no.sapm> wrote:

>"In his provocative book _The Cult of the Amateur_, Andrew Keen
>discusses how blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's
>user-generated media are destroying our economy, culture, and values.
>In this excerpt, he talks about the difficulty of knowing the truth
>about anything on today's internet."
>
>See excerpt at:
>http://lifestyle.sympatico.msn.ca/Ca...abc=abc&date=F
>
>I'm not sure I like Andrew Keen; he seems to want professional
>or certified "experts" to decide what content we'll have access to.
>
>Sean_Q_

The liberals also want to bring back the 'Fairness Doctrine' (
which, BTW, might easily be applied to blogs, websites, etc ) to force
private companies that disagree with them to give them a forum for
their views, because of the massive failure of their attempts to
create 'liberal talk radio'. They found out that no one WANTS to
listen to them ( and thus no market share, thus no advertiser buys,
thus no finance for the show ). so they want to MAKE people listen to
them.

The standard liberal idea of 'freedom of speech' - it means
'only US, no one else, gets to be heard'.


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> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:05:06 GMT, Sean_Q_ <nospam@no.sapm> wrote:
>
> The standard liberal idea of 'freedom of speech' - it means
> 'only US, no one else, gets to be heard'.
>

Does the planet you live on have trees? Sheesh.