DISQUS

Tom Foremski · 2 years ago

You should see Keen at the Stanford Summit, he completely blew himself up. Keen said that Prince is now giving away his music and that will prevent millions from getting access to Prince's music except through $125 show tickets in Las Vegas! I think that debate, in which Gilder handed Keen his head, puts an end to his nonsense.

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Dennis Howlett · 2 years ago

Tom: ouch!

Chris Heuer · 2 years ago

One of the main problem with Keen's position is that he believes he is the only one who can decide on who is authoritative on any given topic. There are clearly signal to noise ratios in the digital world of Web 2.0, but like most markets, the best generally rise to the top (but not always as it is an imperfect world).

Dennis Howlett · 2 years ago

@Chris: I've both read Andrew's book and watched a number of the debates in which he has taken part. I've never heard him set himself up as sole arbiter on any given topic. I'd be interested to see your proofs or links of that assertion.

His argument is that the signal to noise issue doesn't work in favour of the best rising to the top. Looking around current arguments in the blogosphere on business models (Winer v Calacanis @ Gnomedex as an example), please explain to me how these are beyond juvenile yet they receive huge amounts of attention? Great if I want to be entertained in a prurient manners, but pretty useless for gaining business insights.

Check the stats around Fox News for regular and non-regular viewers and the dumbing down of quality information. They're startling.