Andrew Keen – video snippets of the lecture he gave at the “me, you and everyone we know is a curator” conference
Although video is crappy and not all was recorded, I managed to save some stuff of the lecture by Andrew Keen. Following his words, I should not be doing this, because archiving something digitally is not archiving something at all and due the fact that this is un-edited material, I am only adding to the cloud of crap online. Still, some strong points are made by Keen, that I would like to share with my anonymous co-user of this Internet, who might stumble upon these pieces of raw, unedited stuff…
What I especially liked was the point made by Keen that as gatekeepers of culture, you should not be intimidated by the web-curator, rather you should defend what you are standing for (instead of organizing web-contests about remixing old video material) ((this refers to a comment by Keen on Julia Noordegraaf and her presentation about a remixing old-and-new video contest)). We should remember that all digital created material is still linked to the physical – objects, artifacts and events. The physical will always have value, where the digital is (at least for now) unstable and chaotic… He said much more, of course, some of it in the videos:
first part
second part – on curators
final part
q and a
Some of my notes on Keen which made me smile:
• Sara Palin as proof of the emergence of the amateur
• The curators/gatekeepers of the system earned the right to say no in an industrial meritocracy
• This is a polical and cultural revolution that is driven by technology, not a technological revolution
• What have they done? Wikipedia, Youtube, Google: they give people the tools to express themselves and build businesses around it
• Half of the people think Google is not for profit
• if you are curators, you can’t give in to this cancer of democratization of the web, Everything is free because that’s what it is worth
• The left can only survive with embracing the idea of authority. It needs to start thinking in terms of authority
• I am that crazy guy who is against the internet