All Annotations of What are we going to say about "Cult of the Amateur"?. Many-to-Many:[Preview]

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• Keen’s sub-title, “How today’s internet is destroying our culture”, has more than a grain of truth to it, and the only thing those of us who care about the network could do wrong would be to dismiss Keen out of hand.
• amateurs were discomfiting people who actually know what they are doing, while producing sub-standard work on their own.
• Keen is correct in seeing that the internet is not an improvement to modern society; it is a challenge to it.
• New technology makes new things possible, or, put another way, when new technology appears, previously impossible things start occurring. If enough of those impossible things are significantly important, and happen in a bundle, quickly, the change becomes a revolution.
• Scoble scoffed at the idea that there is a war on copyright, but there is a war on copyright, at least as it is currently practiced
• internet is not an improvement to modern society; it is a challenge to it.
• The old model of defining a journalist by tying their professional identity to employment by people who own a media outlet is broken