The Observer has an interesting article about Andrew Keen’s new book The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy. Although the book isn’t released until early June, according to the Observer article the basic premise is that:
bloggers and other evangelists for the web [are] destroying culture, ruining livelihoods and threatening to make consumers of new media regress into ‘digital narcissism’.
He points out that most of what you see on MySpace, YouTube and other such social networking sites is utterly banal; the information you read on Wikipedia has often not been edited by experts; and a disproportionate amount of information can be found on Pamela Anderson, compared with,…
" item,B,en_GB,http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/04/10/this-is-true/,10/04/2007: THIS IS TRUE,"PLEASE DON’T READ THIS.
In 1876, a young girl named Jenn was walking down a river, an insane man killed her by stabbing her in the back, raping her, and then hanging her in his closet. Then a she just dissapeared no one ever found her untill 2000 when a yoing girl called Mary found her body and markings on her chest saying: “I wasnt pretty enough”. Now that you have read this message, she will come to your house on a full moon and steal your soul unless you follow these directions: Paste this message into 3 comments and press ALT F4 and your crushes name will appear on the screen!!! its soo wierd
More insane ramblings here:
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