Category Archives: Andrew Keen

JuicyCampus Founder Pleads “Can’t You Just Stop Being Mean To Each Other? Please?”

Well … in not so many words, of course.
Matt Ivester, founder of JuicyCampus.com, the “gossip” site for College kids notoriously known for being an unrestrained melting pot of libelous and defamatory remarks, has made a plea for decorum and decency on the JuicyCampus blog (hosted curiously at Blogspot — surely setting up a Wordpress installation [...]

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Andrew Keen Is A Royal Douchebag

I was recently catching up on a whole bunch of episodes of the Colbert Report the other day not knowing — to my great surprise — that he recently interviewed social media troll Andrew Keen. For those who are not social media nerds (such as myself), Andrew “Blogging Is Destroying Life As We Know [...]

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Laying The Smack Down on Andrew Keen — Blogging Styles!

The best quote I’ve read all day? With respect to Andrew Keen’s book, “The Cult of the Amateur”:
It is a whining, outrageous and defensive fantasy based on sweeping generalizations, falsehoods, paranoia and a form of condescension so pissy that it blinds the author to anything resembling reality.

I haven’t yet had the pleasure of reading [...]

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Andrew Keen: Totally Wrong, But a Magnificent Troll.

Andrew Keen, widely regarded as the curmudgeon of the social media set, sat down earlier today to take a few questions and answers from a few lowly plebs about his thoughts on social media. For those not quite familiar with his work, I’ll paraphrase it up for you: Mr. Keen believes that user generated [...]

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