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A Short Comment on Keen’s Book

So, as promised, I read Keen’s book (The Cult of the Amateur. How Blogs, Myspace, YouTube, and the Rest of Today’s User-Generated Media are Destroying Our Economy, Our Culture, and Our Val… more →

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Who Watches Those Who Want Us to Watch Others? — 2 comments

Richard Stephens wrote 3 months ago: Wading through the amount of information available to us in this age of super networks, libraries, a … more →

Tags: Journaling, Journalist, media, authorities, Money, Information, Recommendations, Entertainment, Books

Technology and principles in language teaching — 68 comments

hughdellar wrote 7 months ago: Over the coming months, I’m going to try and start blogging about a whole range of different w … more →

Tags: teacher training and development, teaching lexis, technology, The state of our profession!, Andrew Walkley, Class Blogs, IWBs, Lexicography, Nik Peachey

Why Books Are The Ultimate New Business Card

Bookblurb wrote 8 months ago:   By Ryan Holiday Books are no longer simply books, they are branding devices and credibility signal … more →

Tags: Authors, Books, Andrew Keen, Ryan Holiday, fastcompany, Business Card, Branding, speaking agents, Digital Vertigo

The Cyber Forest of "Mediocrity" - the unhealthy product of social media — 1 comment

Cash W. wrote 10 months ago: Realizing the importance of the moment, a local in Jacksonville Beach pumps down the line, not worry … more →

Tags: Surfing, Social Media, Travel, Florida, Photography, Art, Internet, facebook, twitter

The Cult of the Amateur — 6 comments

Tina wrote 1 year ago: …or how to pretend that the Internet is the evil in our lives. Andrew Keen is a critic of the … more →

Tags: Books, Andrew Keen, Internet, Books 2, critic, death of music, music businesses, media

Trading Up For the Latest Model — 1 comment

The Indie Kind wrote 2 years ago: With the spring semester now over, this will be my last entry (at least for a while). I hope that yo … more →

Tags: features, Andrew Keen, Brian Hiatt, Evan Serpick, michael degusta, Nettwerk, Peter Paterno, Rolling Stone, Songs I wish I had written

Daniel Pink on how the 21st century brain affects creativity

Bob Morris wrote 3 years ago: Daniel Pink“According to Daniel Pink, the author of The New York Times best-selling Drive, the great … more →

Tags: Bob's blog entries, The New York Times, Drive, Daniel Pink on How the 21st Century Brain Affects Creat, washington dc, Andrew Keen

MARSHALL MC LUHAN-EXPLORATIONS-"THE WORLD IS A GLOBAL VILLAGE", 5.18.1960 — 1 comment

mapnha wrote 3 years ago: I just discovered this video of a Marshall Mc Luhan Interview from  1960 and I find it corresponds p … more →

Tags: M-ADD-MATERIAL, S-ADD-MATERIAL, social effests of new technologies, the power of peruasion, New Media, Society, Information Flow, Point Of View, censorship

VIRTUAL SUICIDE

mapnha wrote 3 years ago: Another interesting website: http://www.seppukoo.com/ this site created a countermovement for users, … more →

15th Annual Sloan-C Conference - A Review — 1 comment

JimS wrote 3 years ago: By John Sener Disclaimer: I am both uniquely qualified and perhaps ill-suited to write a review of t … more →

Tags: Andrew Keen, Frank Mayadas, Mayadas, Online Education, polemicist, quality matters, Schmoozefest, Sloan-C, Tweetosphere

(R)Evolution: the monkeys are back. — 4 comments

amateur2point0 wrote 3 years ago: T. H Huxley, the 19th century evolutionist once wrote that if you gave infinite monkeys infinite typ … more →

Tags: Andrew Keen, Bloggers, citi, Citizen Journalism

Out of Print: Prosumption and the Triumph of New Media

PJ Rey wrote 3 years ago: (Reposted for Sociology Lens) President Obama recently gave a eulogy for the legendary news anchor, … more →

Tags: Sociology Lens, capitalism, Internet, web 2. 0, media, Sociology, Prosumer, Prosumption, Karl Marx

The Transition of Media — 2 comments

Ashley wrote 3 years ago: Submitted by E. Rich (GraphicSilence.com) In part of Andrew Keen’s book, The Cult of the Amate … more →

Tags: Internet, Newspaper Industry, Andrew Keen, web 2. 0, Traditional Media, Newspaper, Emerging Media

library book review: the cult of the amateur by andrew keen

Betsy Schuurman wrote 3 years ago: This book was published in 2007 so I’ll go easy on Keen. The full title is “the cult of … more →

Tags: Social Media, Andrew Keen, Book Reviews, web 2. 0

A Short Comment on Keen's Book — 2 comments

kvams wrote 3 years ago: So, as promised, I read Keen’s book (The Cult of the Amateur. How Blogs, Myspace, YouTube, and … more →

Tags: Literature, David Weinberger, Wikipedia, Andrew Keen, Google

Weinberger's Shadow: Andrew Keen — 1 comment

kvams wrote 4 years ago: David Weinberger has a shadow, and its name is Andrew Keen. Keen on his shadowy characteristics of M … more →

Tags: Literature, Miscellaneous, David Weinberger, Andrew Keen

Demystifying Social Media — 2 comments

dandunlop wrote 4 years ago: Yesterday I spoke to a group of about 40 healthcare marketers from Adventist Health System who were … more →

Tags: Social Media, Trends, Web 2.0, dan dunlop, healthcare marketing, Andrew Keen, Adventist Health System, demystifying social media, consumer engagement

Listener reviews - from the archive, for the archive

ethicalmartini wrote 4 years ago: I can now link to the full text of my Listener book review “The man who owns the news”. … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, rupert murdoch, Inside Spin, The Man Who Owns The News

Will the Financial Crisis stop People from Contributing to Wikipedia?

jaycruz wrote 4 years ago: Economy to Give Open Source a Good Thumping Every “Web 2.0″ pundit, “Social Media … more →

Tags: Technology and Web, Web, Blogging, Andrew Keen, Web 2.0, Social Media, Wiki, Wikipedia


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