[New-Poetry] Poetry and Art The Cult of the Amateur

[Jorgensen, Alexander]

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9cbeed14-fee9-11db-aff2-000b5df10621.html
 
 Andrew Keen, a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur, has set the 
blogosphere alight with his new book, a scathing attack on user-generated 
content. Sub-titled “How the Internet is killing our culture”, Keen’s 
book is a polemic against the “anything goes” standards of much of online 
publishing.
    Keen does not believe in “the wisdom of the crowd”. Much of the 
content filling up YouTube, MySpace, and blogs is just an “an endless 
digital forest of mediocrity” which, unconstrained by professional 
standards or editorial filters,  can alter public debate and manipulate public 
opinion
    He also fears that the free swapping, downloading, mashing-up and 
aggregating of intellectual property threaten the ability of artists and 
thinkers with contributions of real value to earn a livelihood from 
their talents.
    ‘The Cult of the Amateur’ is published by Random House on June 5. 
Andrew Keen will be online to answer questions about his book on 
Thursday June 7 at 2pm BST (9am EDT).


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to those who watch.” (Jean-Luc Godard)
       
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