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Bill Liao Premium Member Group moderatorThe company name is only visible to registered members.Another gem just out - The cult of the amateur
This is a book with a message in ti about web 2.0 and the message is "Beware"
The premise the that we are all drowning in a pool of mediocrity as the number of authors exceeds the size of the audience. It is the polar opposite of Chris Anderson's book The Long Tail and well worth reading as there re anythings that can be done to create a new and powerful means of mitigating the possible future of boredom the book book predicts.
It does digress a bit though taking in the issue of Digital rights management which stricktly speaking is off topic and deserves a book of its own.
- 04 Jun 2007, 9:11 pm
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Tomy Pelluz(not a XING member)Re: Another gem just out - The cult of the amateur
Thanks Bill,
I have read a review in the New York Times, but your comment has finally encourage me to read the book.
An excerpt from the review:
-- For one thing, Mr. Keen says, “history has proven that the crowd is not often very wise,” embracing unwise ideas like “slavery, infanticide, George W. Bush’s war in Iraq, Britney Spears.” The crowd created the tech bubble of the 1990s, just as it created the disastrous Tulipmania that swept the Netherlands in the 17th century. ---
http://tinyurl.com/29o388
This post was modified on 22 Aug 2007 at 04:30 pm.- 22 Aug 2007, 4:28 pm
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Mark B. NewbauerThe company name is only visible to registered members.Re^2: Another gem just out - The cult of the amateur
Let us not forget the yin and the yang and the dependence our existence has on its balance. Keen's comments are notable, but, ironically, to me, they seem to be exactly what he is describing himself--mediocre and pretentious; More commentary with an impotent foresight toward evolution and growth; and more boo-hooing against the explosion of culture and globalization brought to you by the world wide web.
To me, 2.0, as it is referred, is as if the world community went from a Jason telescope to the Hubble in 60 seconds.
Our views extend now, boundaryless, as when in grade school you went from the 8 crayon box to the 64 crayon box with the sharpener on the side. How could you possibly suggest mediocrity with all these colors abound?! Keen compares the tech bubble to 'tulipmania' in the 17th century- silly times, yes--but we would not have Dumas' 'The Black Tulip' without it, as a portrait of this inevitable mass human occurence be it a flower, a computer or even the great 'Y2K scare'. Don't sit in judgment of mediocrity---QUESTION it and evolve from it therein. At risk of putting myself in the crosshairs of my own opinion--don't just stand there- do something. Think something; and realize that these elements, this stimuli that surrounds us, are tools toward greatness--but be it stones or the world wide web, our tools are only as useful as the people that put them to action.
For good or for evil- that's our choice. And only when we decide as a community ,and not as a jury, to create rather than destroy, while keeping in mind that to create, sometimes, we must destroy, will we find the magnificence of our powers as a whole. God's joke, of course, is that the darkness will always be here to prey on the light and the best we can do some days is simply, as individuals, do everything we can to stay out of the shadows.
As Darwin suggests, the smart ones will get by and paint with a fiery streak utilizing their observations and interactions through the stew of garage bands and google, poppy product placement, britney, Utube, Paris, porn and war. Remember not so long ago when we worried about Ebonics destroying the English language? I dare you to find anything but a run-on sentence in my post as I tend to write from my soul before my head; ending with a preposition??--see Winston Churchill regarding this--a google search will help you along the way, dare you succumb to the mediocrity it promotes.
The pendulum will always swing back and forth, yes, over and over, and sometimes crossing all-too familiar territory into what seems like a cesspool of recyclables; but let us not forget, that as it swings, from the back to the forth, time does progress and following each night will come a dawn and some of us have trouble adapting to these changes. I could write for days on the matter, but will relent for the time being. In the meantime, I suggest Mr. Keen drink some Mr. Coffee.
This post was modified on 22 Aug 2007 at 05:43 pm.- 22 Aug 2007, 5:15 pm
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Mark B. NewbauerThe company name is only visible to registered members.
one more thing...
On amateurs, garage bands and lunatics of 2.0 that are allegedly raping and pillaging the world of substance:
It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts.
Here are the facts about the three candidates. Who would you vote for?
Candidate A.
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologist.
He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a
day.
Candidate B.
He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in
college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.
Candidate C
He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.
Please vote......
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Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.
Remember: Amateurs...built the ark.
Professionals...built the Titanic
This post was modified on 23 Aug 2007 at 07:32 pm.- 23 Aug 2007, 7:32 pm
