I've been reading Andrew Keen's luddite work "The Cult of the Amateur". A lot of people don't like Keen, which I'm sure suits his polemic purposes just fine, but I frankly find him a bit refreshing, given the extent of the hype around real estate blogging, social networks, and Web 2.0.

One of Keen's points is that Web 2.0 has become write-only, that everyone is broadcasting like crazy but no one's listening. Now with Ning it turns out that not only can everyone have their own blog, ever… Continue