Web 2.0 debate: It’s on!

The Wall Street Journal recently featured a debate on Web 2.0 between Andrew Keen, author of “The Cult of the Amateur,” and David Weinberger, who wrote “Everything is Miscellaneous.” Web 2.0: Spiralling into chaos or empowering users? “The explosion of blogs, social networks and video-sharing sites has allowed any Internet user to become a journalist or filmmaker or music star. But is this democratization of information — often called Web 2.0 — the future of the Internet or a looming disaster?” The Wall Street Journal asks.

September 27, 2007 by
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COMMENTS

  • Helen Gallagher

    There seems to be no turning back, and no way to ever recapture the lost hours of productivity, wasted electricity, and devaluing of human intelligence created by social networking sites.

    It is within our power to turn this around, not just gawk and stare at this dumbing down of global culture.
    Helen Gallagher, author Computer Ease
    http://www.cclarity.com

  • Saikat Sengupta

    I think web 2.0 is providing a platform to good people who otherwise had to struggle a lot to get the stage. If a few bad journalists and filmmakers come up as byproduct, well, that’s worth tolerating! And I have full faith in human mind. I am sure only good and talented journalists and filmmakers would survive.

    *terms journalist and filmmaker are analogous.