In a recent blog post, Stevie Rocco wrote that “Professor X is a scribe.” She wrote that as part of a larger conversation which grew from a critique of Cole Camplese’s presentation at the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Tech Forum...
This Flash animation gives a narrative view of the potential outcome (from the “future perspective of being in 2014 and looking back”) that we can expect when, as Andrew Keen warns, the “Cult of Amateur” pushes the experts out the...
In my previous post I wrote about some of my thoughts concerning three key points that I drew from Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur”. I wanted to take a few minutes to write about ways to address the...
I am reading Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur: How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today’s user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values. It is a very interesting, and challenging book. His general...