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Unpopular opinion: everyone's an expert on the Internet. Is that such a bad thing?(The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture )(Book review)
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January 1, 2008
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The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture by Andrew Keen Currency/Doubleday, 2007 240 pages
Keen ignores the fact that for every recognized expert, there are a dozen other passionate experts who have just as much information and insight.
In The Cult of the Amateur, author Andrew Keen despairs of Wikipedia that "everyone with an agenda can rewrite an entry to their liking."
Keen, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who writes about culture, media and technology, has produced a book about a world where "our most valued cultural institutions--our professional newspapers, magazines, music and movies--are being overtaken by an ...
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