I'm a bit fixated the last couple of days, on this amateurs-killing-culture stuff ... the pot which Andrew Keen set out on the stoop and keeps stirring.

The man has clearly touched a nerve, and like most controversial perspectives which take root and grow, there are some good reasons for that.

I think most people (at least in the Western world, where there is ready access and growing use of the Web) would agree that there's lots of crap self-published, and that much blogging is explicit or camouflaged narcissism, and so on.