Keen vs. Weinberger: The Plot (by Amateurs) Against America
- July 19th, 2007
- 1 Comment
Why is this man smiling?
I was on my way to the outhouse with some print-outs of the WSJ opinion page — the newsprint version is too harsh — when I noticed an interview between Andrew Keen, writer of The Cult of the Amateur, and David Weinberger, author of Everything is Miscellaneous.
Mr. Keen’s argument runs in the cranky old man watching Elvis on Ed Sullivan vein. He believes blogging and all this Web 2.0 razamatazz is a bunch of Commie hoo-ha and in his day you used to have to go to the library to look up the long-winded ramblings of an accredited critic, scientist, or guy-who-writes-encylopediast to get information on a topic, not some hoopty-doopty hippity hoppity kid out in Kansas with a keyboard and some moxie, by gum, whose only interests include letting dogs pee on Mr. Keen’s lawn and preventing him from getting a good night’s sleep thanks to all the Web 2.0 bordello parties they’re having down the street. Mr. Weinberger thinks Web 2.0 is cool.
Watch the sparks fly as these two UFC-certified intellectuals spar on Murdoch’s future dumping ground. Roar!
Fred (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Andrew Keen is an idiot, pissed off that Web 2.0 inevitably results in less need for Andrew Keen. There’s a point about halfway through that WSJ piece where he asks whether Weinberger thinks the web is good for intellectuals. Therein lies the rub - the motto of Web 2.0 should be Intellectuals are Irrelevant. If you have something to add to the conversation, then add it, whether you’re a philosophy professor or a plumber. If not, then shut up and go away, even if you’re an “intellectual” like Andrew Keen.