A Canadian heavyweight matchup: Clay Shirky versus Andrew Keen

By Joshua Benton /  Oct. 8, 2009  /  10 a.m.  

Our own Mathew Ingram moderated a panel discussion last week between two luminaries in the future-of-content-online space: Clay Shirky (who readers of this site know well) and Andrew Keen, whose thoughts on the subject can probably be sussed out from the title of his book, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture. (Available on the Kindle!)

Their wide ranging discussion was captured in all the usual 2009 forms: a liveblog, a hashtag, and video, which I’ve embedded below in four parts. (Note that introductions take a little while, so you may want to skip ahead a bit.)

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4 comments:

  1. Bill Doskoch at 5:25 pm, October 8, 2009

    I also blogged extensively about it:

    http://billdoskoch.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2009/10/3/4339798.html

    It’s unquestionably the most comprehensive report about the event, which went uncovered by major Toronto newspapers.

     
  2. Mark at 10:02 am, October 13, 2009

    It is SO hard to watch Mr. Shirky wiggling out of his earlier “theories” of “free” or self-sustainable Internet…

    And his “free” advice for the newspapers, how to save them? Wow! “Hire a few good editors, give them $50,000 for expenses and start a blog.” A “free” blog I suppose.

     

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    [...] Clay Shirky and Andrew Keen intellectualize about the future of journalism. Meanwhile, Conde Nast shuts down four magazines–including heavyweight Gourmet–and lays off over 150 staff, a move media attribute to McKinsey recommendation. Book cover designers Face Out Studio parody Office Space in this year’s AIGA’s Make/Think conference. [...]

     
  2. Meira, Keen e Shirky e o futuro do jornalismo « Acompanhe novidades de O Livreiro at 5:51 pm, October 16, 2009

    [...] início desse mês, o site Nieman Journalism Lab, da Universidade de Harvard, disponibilizou em vídeo, na íntegra, o debate travado na universidade entre dois pensadores do futuro da cultura no mundo [...]

     

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