Andrew Keen earns his stripes
Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 10:52AM
Ken Thomas in Computing & IT, Language & culture, Web 2.0 & online communications

Andrew Keen, author of “The Cult of the Amateur”, may be mistaken and backward-looking in his criticism of the internet for being corrosive to culture – but to his credit he also has humility and a sense of humour! Keen’s blog points us to his debates with commentators more level-headed than himself, and they are giving him some harsh online punishment:

On the Guardian Keen is flayed alive by Emily Bell.

Keen’s upcoming evisceration on the Colbert Report.
>>edit: sadly there is no evisceration; politically unpredictable mainstream comic Colbert handles Keen pretty gently<<

 

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