The internet is worse than Nazis?, Cripes, somebody needs to tell this luddite to get a grip. I wonder if the guy is amazed every time he flicks a light switch in his home and the light comes on. Must be magic for him. Ted Stevens and this guy would make BFF.
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How funny. Was that set up?
I think the right word was “egoism”, not “elitism”…
that guy is so ignorant
Awwh—just trying to be hostile, confrontational, and beligerent==but not very good at it. He could take a lesson or two from Ann Coulter.
We should show him!!! Everybody send him a nasty gram, and somebody who knows how should deface his website!!!
Everybody send him a nasty gram, and somebody who knows how should deface his website!!!
The worst thing you could do to this guy is ignore him. Which is what I will be doing.
It seems Andrew is learning how messy Democracy can be.
If only we would all follow him, thing would be so much better.
Wow where have I read that before?
I’ve notice the owner of this blog being rather tech cranky in some of his PC Mag columns. No to cell phones, etc.
God this guy got his head so far up his ass going on about the internet.
I got A PHD and letters after my name so I know better then you come on.
Yes a lot of the stuff on the internet maybe crap but does not mean we should turn off the net. Just look what is on TV or in the newspapers. A lot of it is just shit. OK that my two cents on the subjects.
I guess my earlier post got lost with the DU server problems. I’ll try to do it again.
It appears most of the above posts have no idea what this guy is saying. Of course, it is difficult when Colbert interrupts every few seconds (anyone notice how Colbert tactics resembles O’Rielly’s).
If all information and digital media becomes free, there will be no one to pay journalists to gather news. Although many will enjoy bashing the Main Stream Media, I would much rather have them as they are now than be relegated to just hearing from Fox Spews or the New York Times.
The same may be said of anyone selling information. Phuk that straw man RIAA. They may be vultures but they are right. And it wouldn’t matter if it was Stephan King, Stephan Spielburg, or Stephan Colbert. If you are taking their material you are taking their livelihood.
Our society is based upon being paid for work done. Until we can make a society where we don’t need to work to support ourselves, these people will need to be paid. I wonder how many people would continue to go to work each day knowing they wouldn’t be paid for it? Dedication and convictions don’t pay the morgage.
Hugest ignorant. jerkass. EVER.
This blowhard obviously did his ‘research’ talking to Lady Elton John. http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=12958
He’s blog flamebait. Forgotten in a ….. wait…. Andrew who?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Keen#Personal_life
People like that should be hunted down, and be put in a sac, and thrown into the water. In the bag with them, we put a snake, a monkey and a dog. All that should be filmed and put on pay-per-view…or better yet, YOUTUBE!
Art is for the common man to infuse himself with after breaking his back for the master 8 hours a day 6 days a week; it is not for this pig headed dimwit who is so numb to himself he must continually extend the threshold of his own self lacking to the point where he feels nothing but the lifelessness of his own thoughts of himself wallowing in his head. But hey, whatever floats ya boat.
#10 Mr. Fusion sez: “It appears most of the above posts have no idea what this guy is saying. Of course, it is difficult when Colbert interrupts every few seconds (anyone notice how Colbert tactics resembles O’Rielly’s).”
FYI : “The Colbert Report” is a parody of the O’Rielly factor.
I think the idea this guy is attempting to put across is similar to what happened when the Macintosh first came out. That being a lot of people with no design sense where suddenly able to use every typeface they had in a single page… etc design by the masses was pretty awful there. The point being that it took time for people to develop into better designers and now you don’t see much of that.
The ease with which one can post their ideas to the internet means we are exposed to much more nonsense, many more poorly written, half baked ideas than we are accustomed to getting from professionals. It’ll just take time for everything to shake out and the power of the individual to make his voice heard will be a bit less shrill…
That’s my take on it anyway.
#15, ML,
Exactly. With the apparent intelligence shown so far, do you think anyone else would have picked up on that?
At least a couple of people actually tried to think about the subject.
A knee-jerk reaction from one side is just as bad as from the other side. “What! Someone is saying the Internet is bad! Let’s tar-and-feather him!”. “What! Someone is facilitating pirating music on the Internet! Let’s sue him!” are two sides of the same coin.
Please, do listen to arguments and consider them. Think critically for yourself. It becomes easier with practice.
Actually, the lack of critical thought on what’s posted is often what’s bad about the Internet (ooh! I said it!). Try an experiment: for a day, before posting anything on-line, go do something else, go back after at least 5 minutes, then re-read your post before hitting the “submit” button. Be honest, and see how much stuff would you have posted differently or not posted at all.
IMO, what this guy is saying is, 99% of amateur-generated content is crap. It is very easy for anyone to post stuff on the Internet. Therefore, 99% of the stuff on the Internet is crap. Want proof? Go to YouTube and just browse randomly. Sure, you may find a pearl or two, or you may find niches that appeal to you. Fine. But most of the good stuff posted on YouTube or elsewhere in general is still from professionals. Professionals means, simply, that they make money from doing that.
There’s so much stuff out there that you need something to filter things for you. Be it a newspaper, Dvorak, maybe even an automated thing like digg (although that is debatable). It’s just necessary given the amount of stuff out there. Your job is to find out what combination of sources work for you to get some insight into what’s really happening. But doing that takes work, and this work needs compensation, otherwise it will be unprofessional by definition… and in 99% of the cases it will suck.
Hey, anybody who can outbullshit Colbert has to have a point. And I’m not sure, but I think I see it.
It seems to me that the guy is a dinosaur. He still thinks The New York Times, Borders, CNN, or your local museum are the only legitimate places to attain information and knowledge. Why? Because the purveyors are paid when we go to these places.
The way he must see it, if you aren’t getting paid for your professionally crafted elitist art, news, or journalism than you can’t possibly be an artist, newsman, or journalist. You are obviously a hack that needs to be legislated away.
Screw him. We don’t live in the USSR. We live in a free republic with freedom of speech. He and his ilk are simply terrified that the Internet is changing everything and they still have not figured out how to make a buck off of it. Their content is becoming lost in a sea of free publicly created content, much of which is more honest and straight forward than anything they create because there is no need to worry about offending the customer.
Hmm, I wonder if Pat Condell is worried about offending his viewers? Doubtful. He speaks from the heart, not from his wallet.
Soon these “professionals” will have to sell their Manhattan apartments and move to the Jersey suburbs, trade in their Mercedes for Fords, and have to start drinking beer instead of $500 bottles of wine, all because they are losing their marketability.
To me, it appears that internet-born free market forces have burst the elitists’ monopoly on information.
Boohoo.
The worst thing about the Internet is the abominable grammar and spelling.
The guy’s a troll, just not a very good one.
A lot of people in the Bay Area know Andrew Keen, he’s a Web 2.0 enthusiast but the “inner-lektual critic” act is just, that an act.
He makes a good point, do you pay for even art off deviant art or right click save it? Course he doesn’t count such things as the episodes sold on iTunes. Good argument, not enough to write a book on though.
Calling him ignorant but not supporting why.. you may as well have never said anything at all. Such talk does nothing to convince anyone and promotes how ignorant you are.
Wow, some of the comments here are proving him so right