If you look at the Internet a few years back, you’ll see that advertising was done in a way that was very similar to other types of media like television, or actually, more like what you see in a newspaper. You’d enter a site, and in some location you’d get to see a banner (often […]
Website Debunking Keen’s the Cult of the Amateur
Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur is a blistering tirade against “Web 2.0,” blogs, YouTube, citizen journalists, and the like. Keen champions professional journalists as bastions of truth; however, in an off-handed comment, Keen admitted that his own book wasn’t fact-checked. Accordingly, the book fails to fulfill its own calls for accuracy and objectivity. […]
The End of FUD Revisited
Recent actions by Microsoft prompted us to re-issue this position paper and add a section on intellectual property. This position paper will address the question, “Can the open source approach to software development promote transparency and remove FUD — fear, uncertainty and doubt?” By requiring that source code is freely available to all, the open […]