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Andrew Keen: Introduction. In: The Cult of the Amateur. How Today's Internet is Killing our Culture, Crown Business, 2007.
- T.H. Huxley's Theory
- If you provde infinite monkeys with typewriters, some monkey will eventually create a masterpiece – a play by Shakespeare, a Platonic dialoge, or an ecnomic tratise by Adam Smith.
- fortells the consequences of a lattening culture that is blurring the lines between traditional audience and author, creator and consumer, expert and amateur
- Web 2.0
- today's technology hooks all those monkeys up with typewriters
- internet users with networked personal computers
- they are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity
- at the heard of self-publishing is the internet diary, the blog
- kids can't tell the difference between professional journalism and blogs
- for Generation Y utopians, every posting is just another version of the truth
- Wikipedia