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  • Nick Carr's Big Switch

    By Andrew Keen | January 11, 2010, 9:00am PST

    Nicholas Carr, amongst the most incisive and profound critic of information technology, will be in Silicon Valley tonight (7.00 pm), at Campbell’s Barnes and Noble bookstore in conversation...

  • Don't Look Back

    By Andrew Keen | June 3, 2007, 10:52pm PDT

    How to innovate? That was both the spoken and unspoken question on everyone’s minds at the Wall Street Journal’s memorable D Conference this week in Carlsbad. How can we radically...

  • Does Internet democracy work?

    By Andrew Keen | May 30, 2007, 2:11pm PDT

    How effective is democracy on the Internet? A few weeks ago, I challenged Jeff Jarvis, one of Web 2.0’s most fervent democratizers, to debate my forthcoming book Cult of the Amateur....

  • Does Eric Schmidt want to sniff the armpits of my mind?

    By Andrew Keen | May 23, 2007, 10:16pm PDT

    So Eric Schmidt, the Chauncey Gardiner of Silicon Valley, is at it again. This time, the wise old fool wants to organize my daily life. The Google CEO (Chief Eccentric Officer) confessed to the...

  • Outsourcing The News

    By Andrew Keen | May 22, 2007, 9:37am PDT

    The San Francisco Chronicle has just announced a 25% cut in its editorial team. Will that mean 25% less news in the already hard news deprived Chronicle? Or will the remaining 75% of Chronicle...

  • Bubbe is back

    By Andrew Keen | May 10, 2007, 10:07pm PDT

    So there I was, on the BART train, reading the newspaper-that-Rupert-is-lusting-after. I’d just finished Mossberg’s piece of hot air on the Helio (yawn). Then my eye caught the...

  • Buy Microsoft, buy Yahoo!

    By Andrew Keen | May 6, 2007, 9:21pm PDT

    Are Yahoo and Microsoft finished as Internet companies? Can they rebound? Of course they can. In contrast with the majority of Web 2.0 entrepreneurs, both Microsoft and Yahoo have innovation in...

  • Virtual reality in Hollywood

    By Andrew Keen | May 2, 2007, 5:44pm PDT

    On Hollywood is getting weirder by the panel. First there was golden girl Arianna and her colonialization of the media universe. Then I wandered into a panel ominously entitled “What’s...

  • Arianna is golden

    By Andrew Keen | May 2, 2007, 12:00pm PDT

    It takes a golden woman to get me out of bed at 5.00 am. And Arianna Huffington is golden, very golden. I caught the 6.30 shuttle this morning down to Burbank, to catch the golden girl live...

  • Zigger nation

    By Andrew Keen | May 1, 2007, 10:33pm PDT

    Business 2.0 dedicates it’s May 2007 issue to purveyors of unconventional business wisdom. But what happens when every entrepreneur is seeking to be a contrarian?

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