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Article: User-generated nightmares.(publishing industry and technological advances)(Column)
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- Personal Computer World
- Article date:
- July 12, 2007
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Byline: Guy Kewney
User-generated nightmares
Technology may have changed the face of publishing, but it doesn't change the nature of journalism
In a clear attempt to be controversial, writer Andrew Keen said in his book, The Cult of the Amateur, "Before Web 2.0, our collective intellectual history has been one driven by the careful aggregation of truth -- through professionally edited books and reference materials, newspapers, radio and television."
Most people will be thinking: 'I've read the News of the World, and I've read the National Enquirer. Careful aggregation of truth? Come on! The world before Web 2.0 included Robert Maxwell, ...