Online Media Cultist

Another self-described expert is trying to sell a book by attacking the blogosphere, blathering about how a “pajama army” of “exuberant monkeys” is creating “an endless forest of digital mediocrity.”

Now there’re some images for you, eh? Puts you in the mind of a demented Peter Pan 2.0 or some such.

The author, Andrew Keen, is the founder of Audiocafe… which doesn’t exist anymore, sadly. This might explain his obsession with “digital thieves.”

There are lots of ways to fairly criticize and reasonably discuss the excesses and problems going on in the blogosphere and social media as a whole. Unfortunately, it does require some expertise in the area and a smidge of critical thinking.

Keen told Reuters that the book “is designed as a grenade… It is not designed to be particularly fair or balanced.”

Right.

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