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{{a|book review|}} | {{a|book review|The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy <br> | ||
Since {{author|Andrew Keen}} is so instinctively dismissive about amateur contributors to the internet — people like me — it’s hardly surprising that I should instinctively dismiss his book, so let me declare an interest right away: I like Web 2.0. I’ve been a contributor to it — through Amazon customer reviews, Wikipedia, discussion forums, MySpace, Napster and so on — for nearly a decade now, and I’ve followed the emergence of the political movement supporting it, exemplified by writers such as Larry Lessig and Yochai Benkler, with some fascination. and no, I’ve never made a dime out of it (though I have been sent a few books to review, not including this one). | {{author|Andrew Keen}} <br> | ||
First published on Amazon, 24 July 2007}}Since {{author|Andrew Keen}} is so instinctively dismissive about amateur contributors to the internet — people like me — it’s hardly surprising that I should instinctively dismiss his book, so let me declare an interest right away: I like Web 2.0. I’ve been a contributor to it — through Amazon customer reviews, Wikipedia, discussion forums, MySpace, Napster<ref>This review was published in 2007!</ref> and so on — for nearly a decade now, and I’ve followed the emergence of the political movement supporting it, exemplified by writers such as Larry Lessig and Yochai Benkler, with some fascination. and no, I’ve never made a dime out of it (though I have been sent a few books to review, not including this one). | |||
Andrew Keen is that classic sort of British reactionary: the sort that would regret the damage caused by industrial vacuum cleaners on the chimney sweeping industry. His book is an impassioned, but simple-minded, harkening to those simpler times which concludes that our networked economy has pointlessly exalted the amateur, ruined the livelihood of experts, destroyed incentives for creating intellectual property, delivered to every man-jack amongst us the ability — never before possessed — to create and distribute our own intellectual property and monkey around with the title to property wrought from the very sweat of its author’s brow. | Andrew Keen is that classic sort of British reactionary: the sort that would regret the damage caused by industrial vacuum cleaners on the chimney sweeping industry. His book is an impassioned, but simple-minded, harkening to those simpler times which concludes that our networked economy has pointlessly exalted the amateur, ruined the livelihood of experts, destroyed incentives for creating intellectual property, delivered to every man-jack amongst us the ability — never before possessed — to create and distribute our own intellectual property and monkey around with the title to property wrought from the very sweat of its author’s brow. | ||
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In the mean time, Yochai Benkler’s {{br|The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom}} and {{author|Lawrence Lessig}}’s {{br|Code: Version 2.0}} (neither of which Keen seems to have read) might be a better place for interested persons to start. | In the mean time, Yochai Benkler’s {{br|The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom}} and {{author|Lawrence Lessig}}’s {{br|Code: Version 2.0}} (neither of which Keen seems to have read) might be a better place for interested persons to start. | ||
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*{{br|The Long Tail}} | |||
*{{br|Blockbusters: Why Big Hits and Big Risks are the Future of the Entertainment Business}} | |||
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