User:Inge Hoonte/Youstuff

Richard Stengel, Managing Editor TIME

2006..... the year of YOU

Global nervous system.

A bit of an opposition to the Keen text. "The new media age of Web 2.0 is threatening only if you believe that an excess of democracy is the road to anarchy. I don't." Making a plea for its immediacy.

Lev Grossman ONLINE METROPOLIS MYSPACE > citizen of the new digital democracy (? is it really a democracy??) > re futurama episode we watched: if you get fucked over on youtube, it'll only be for a day

Web 2.0 is a massive social experiment, no road map, no guides. Power to the people. > 2.0 refers to the interactivity, as opposed to the pages that couldn't be edited or added to by users in 1.0

James Poniewozik Youtube as SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM, aided by video app cell phones. Shirky.

Steven Johnson Again, amateurs. pro to am. If the majority of what's out there is crap, then who design the filters, search engines and RSS feed tools are important to guide us. Most user-generated content not challenging expert authority.

Traditional journalism <> blogging. Traditional scholarship <> wikipedia.