Making Tracks

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Finding good stuff by accident...

I love the personal publishing revolution. I really do. I was just surfing around the links off my main social network feeds, and I found this interesting perspective.

This is the marketplace of ideas in action.

Among other things (I think I might have an attention problem) I'm reading this:

The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture
by Andrew Keen

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I'm forcing myself,even though my initial scan didn't suggest it had much to offer, to read this book cover to cover. You see Mr. Keen believes the personal publishing revolution is a disaster. If I don't read his work, if I don't give equal time to competing ideas, then I can't claim I'm benefiting from a marketplace. Rather, I'd be wallowing in an (and soon to be proverbial) echo chamber hearing only my own words.