Web 2.0: The Cult of the Amateur

[mandy]

The problem is not distinguishing good and bad content. The problem is that people genuinely prefer "bad" content. Five hundred years after the invention of the printing press, tabloid papers still abound, not because people can't distinguish them from legitimate publications but because they prefer to read garbage...

In his new book, "The Cult of the Amateur," Andrew Keen publicly and pugnaciously says many of the things people were quietly thinking about Web 2.0. He refers to bloggers as a "pajama army" wreaking cultural havoc from their parents' basements...

full article: http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/59100.html