The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture

Andrew Keen's The Cult of the Amateur (set to be published in June 2007 by Currency) is a criticism of Web 2.0 that foregrounds the crowding out of pertinent, intelligent discourse in favor of biased, self-centric and amateurish content made possible by the spread of web publishing & authoring tools.
== External links ==
*Web 2.0--the folly of amateurs?
*Andrew Keen from the Britannica blog]
*Andrew Keen, the Web's Darth Vader?] from C|Net (5.3.07)
*Lawrence Lessig's take on The Cult of the Amateur
*Rise of the Amateur class from the Whats New Media blog
*Is the web killing our culture? from 37 Signals (6.29.07)
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