The web: good or bad?
Today’s tip: Visit this page, print out the article, and find a bit of quiet time to read it.
It’s a debate between Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur; and David Weinberger, a co-author of The Cluietrain Manifesto (practically a bible for us folks at NM) and more recently, Everything is Miscellaneous.
Keen and Weinberger agree that there’s a huge amount of rubbish out there on the web, but that’s where the similarities in their worldviews ends. Keen sees this ‘cult of the amateur’ as harmful. He thinks we’re losing objectivity, meaning and taste. Weinberger argues that people have always been biased, opinionated and often offensive, but also capable of genius and insight above and beyond the traditional media.
Anyway, have a read and let us know what you think. I’m sure it’s clear where our bias lies :)
Tom wrote this on 24.07.07 – what do you think?
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