Andrew Keen once believed Google would become a 'digital leviathan'. Now, he thinks it's falling behind the competition and risks becoming a paper tiger.

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Is Web 2.0 really making us dumb?

Two weeks ago I wrote a post attempting to explain the Web 2.0 phenomenon. I stated then that this was a 'precursor to another article I have been formulating for a while.' That article is what follows in the next couple of paragraphs.

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On Thursday, Colbert had British author Andrew Keen as his guest… what an @!$%#. He says the internet is destroying culture because amateurs are allowed to share things they create with people.

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A shiny new version of the internet, dubbed Web 2.0 by US publisher Tim O'Reilly in 2004, really was going to change everything. With mass broadband access to the internet, the dream of a fully networked, always connected society was finally going to be realised.

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Andrew Keen says the internet is populated by second-rate amateurs - and that it is swiftly destroying our culture. Tim Dowling meets the man cyberspace loves to hate

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Interview With Andrew Keen, Author of the Cult Of The Amateur

This interview – and a subsequent rant/review that will follow shortly – has been one of the most difficult I have done in several years.

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Last week, while in a conversation with Andrew Keen on the radio show To The Point, he suggested that he was not opposed to the technology of the internet, but rather to how it was being used.

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Excerpt: "I'll give Andrew Keen credit for having the balls to say to this crowd of bloggers that the democratization of media was a bad thing. I kept waiting for someone to throw rotten produce at him.

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Excerpt: "There's much in the book that even we amateur-o-philes should think about.

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Andrew Keen points out in his provocative new book that Web 2.0, which incorporates user-generated content, social networking and interactive sharing, has a dark side.

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