The Drill Down 003 – The Cult of the Amateur

On tonight’s show we discuss Andrew Keen’s book “The Cult of the Amateur” and how (or if) the democratization of the internet is killing our culture. We lose Reg entirely this episode, but gain special guest Tamar Weinberg, from Techipedia.com


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Show Links:
Andrew Keen’s “The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture”
http://www.amazon.com/Cult-Amateur-Internet-killing-culture/dp/0385520808

Authors@Google: Andrew Keen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN_n7I0PM3w

Media Literacy in a Media Saturated World
(an aggregation of the blogosphere’s reaction to Keen’s book)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5118

Why We Must Close the Net by Sir Elton John
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007350453,00.html

HandHeld To Acquire eBaum’s World For $15 Million Cash; Other Payouts Possible
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-handheld-to-acquire-ebaums-world-for-17-million

Office Snapshots.org
http://www.officesnapshots.com/

Most Vote Machines Lose Test to Hackers
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/28/VOTING.TMP
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Andrew Sorcini on Digg.com:
http://digg.com/users/MrBabyMan/news/submitted

Reg ‘Zaibatsu’ on Digg.com:
http://digg.com/users/zaibatsu/news/submitted

Muhammad Saleem:
http://digg.com/users/msaleem/news/submitted
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Muhammad+Saleem%22

Tamar Weinberg:
http://www.techipedia.com/
http://www.seroundtable.com/

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Music (Courtesy Podsafe Music Network):

Intro: Pl@stic Soul – “005-1 Electric Guitar”
http://www.mf247.jp/index.php?gr2_id=00000000000000000000000000315600

Outro: Freightrain Jones – “Pervs and Pornos”
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=467690

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