I turned on the TV last night to watch the Colbert Report (gotta catch up on the fake news) and his guest Andrew Keen, who has written a book called The cult of the amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture. The book sounds pretty interesting. In a nutshell (I haven't read the book--I'm going to try to procure a copy this weekend), Keen argues that amateurs are destabilizing the traditional media: bloggers are usurping newspapers, YouTube allows anyone to create and distribute TV(-like) shows (to say nothing of the posting of copyrighted material), and so on. Amateurs are flooding the market with poor quality content and are putting professionals out of work.
You can watch the interview here (you'll have to scroll through the videos and click on "Andrew Keen"). No, it's not on YouTube.
This on the heels of this story, which predicts the demise of local newspapers. And composers like Ariodney Hussington will continue to earn royalties anytime someone listens to the music she posted on her MySpace page...
More on this later after I read the book...
You can watch the interview here (you'll have to scroll through the videos and click on "Andrew Keen"). No, it's not on YouTube.
This on the heels of this story, which predicts the demise of local newspapers. And composers like Ariodney Hussington will continue to earn royalties anytime someone listens to the music she posted on her MySpace page...
More on this later after I read the book...