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Andrew Keen: The new culture wars
Give me Twitter or give me death says a skeptical Ian Brown in the Globe and Mail. But rather than death, Brown actually discovers a new culture war via Twitter
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Getty sharpens its focus on snap-happy amateurs
Monday, 30 March 2009
Larry Ryan hears the strategy behind Getty's new deal with user-generated site Flickr.com
Andrew Keen: Obama needs to stay in touch with his 13m internet soldiers
Monday, 30 March 2009
New media
Love's online spat sparks first Twitter libel suit
Sunday, 29 March 2009
It was merely a matter of time: Twitter, the latest social networking phenomenon, appears to have sparked its first libel action. And perhaps inevitably, singer Courtney Love, well known for sounding off online, is at its centre.
Andrew Keen: The profundity of banality
Sunday, 29 March 2009
"If you thought Facebook was banal, try Twitter" says arch techno-skeptic Margaret Wente. So why do we use the short-messaging network and how can we explain its meteoric growth? The Toronto Globe and Mail columnist/cultural anthropologist gives four possible critical explanations
Andrew Keen: Net Gen President Obama?
Friday, 27 March 2009
Last night, I was in London doing a public debate at the RSA with Don Tapscott, the author of the new Grown Up Digital, a book which explain how, exactly, today’s “Net Generation” of digitally native kids (the 11 to 31 years-olds) is changing our world.
Andrew Keen: Digital feudalism
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
I'm in London this week. Tonight I recorded a programme for the BBC tv show "It's Only A Theory" hosted by the comedians Andy Hamilton and Reginald D. Hunter.
Andrew Keen: More lucid than lucidity
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
The prominent American new media critic Nicholas Carr has been trawling the depths of our digital shallowness. And to make sense of what he calls the "twitterification phenomenon", Carr borrows from the wisdom of the French theorist Jean Baudrillard
Andrew Keen: British papers take note and begin to think the unthinkable
Monday, 23 March 2009
New Media
Public urged to report Google Street view fears
Saturday, 21 March 2009
People worried their privacy has been breached by Google's controversial new mapping service have been told to complain to the search engine or the information watchdog.
BBC given extra cash to cover web overspend
Friday, 20 March 2009
The BBC's governing body has approved a £30m increase in spending for the corporation's websites.
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