Here are some interesting opinions. I've always understood the appreciation for the web as new and powerful means of enabling otherwise impossible communication. But this Andrew Keen character seems to believe that if everyone is allowed to participate, we all lose. He's also wonderfully arrogant.
Is community participation bad?
Submitted by Harry Slaughter on April 9, 2008 - 12:47am.
I have had some rather idiotic discussions with this guy on some different mailing lists.
His trick is to carefully, but hyerbolically and exagerratedly criticize emerging internet and information technology, then hope that others will wretch and blog about him, which he hopes will translate into book sales.
But he has very little actual substance to his arguments, philosophically, theoretically, or otherwise.