Cult of the Amateur? Keen v. Weinberger, Amy Gahran, Poynter Online (July 18)
Are amateurs writing on the Web choking out expertise and considered opinion? Andrew Keen author of The Cult of the Amateur thinks so, but David Weinberger thinks otherwise and says so in his book, Everything is Miscellaneous. Pick your side. But Gahran makes a good point - amateurs in he past have made major contributions to knowledge - think of all the amateur eccentrics in the late 1800s inventing, discovering, and beginning projects like the Oxford dictionary.
Posted by Gwen at July 19, 2007 11:37 AM