The Cult of the Amateur | Andrew Keen’s take on the digital dystopia that is the social phase of the network

The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values

Haven't read it yet, but it is my next book purchase after his lecture I saw on c-span that took place during the January 20th, 2011 Digital Privacy Forum.

Some Reviews of the book:

"In the three years since CULT OF THE AMATEUR was published, Andrew Keen's jeremiad  against the internet has proven scarily prescient. He's an original thinker we should all check in with before stepping over the line into digital utopia. I can't wait for his next book."
-Maria Semple, Author of "This One is Mine"

"This book, which grew out of a controversial essay published last year by The Weekly Standard, is a shrewdly argued jeremiad against the digerati effort to dethrone cultural and political gatekeepers and replace experts with the “wisdom of the crowd.”...he writes with acuity and passion about the consequences of a world in which the lines between fact and opinion, informed expertise and amateurish speculation are willfully blurred..." - Michiko Kakutani, NEW YORK TIME

"A staggering new book by Andrew Keen

His book will come as a real shock to many. It certainly did to me."
- A N Wilson, THE DAILY MAIL 

Here is Andrew Keen speaking at a Social Media Research conference

 Andrew Keen with warnings about the era of 'Self Promotion'

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