{"id":8,"date":"2012-03-12T07:30:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T07:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cxthom.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2012-03-14T00:28:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T00:28:42","slug":"andrew-keens-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cxthom.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Keen&#8217;s New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to <a title=\"keen twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ajkeen\">Keen&#8217;s<\/a> new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Digital-Vertigo-Revolution-Diminishing-Disorienting\/dp\/0312624980\">D<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Digital-Vertigo-Revolution-Diminishing-Disorienting\/dp\/0312624980\">igital Vertigo<\/a>. I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Cult-Amateur-user-generated-destroying\/dp\/0385520816\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1331536333&amp;sr=1-2\">Cult of the Amateur<\/a>, and while I work in, rely on and have spent my whole life in technology and social media, I still think he&#8217;s a voice of reason. It seems impossible to have discourse without polarization. I don&#8217;t think Keen is inviting us to either proselytize or reject social media; he&#8217;s asking us to have a think.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-archive-thumbnail wp-image-9 alignright\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"Digital Vertigo\" src=\"http:\/\/cxthom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/41ZMkOB3bvL._SL500_AA300_-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" \/>Tech media in its current form is likely a stepping stone to something more meaningful, but reductionism is always a threat &#8211; especially for a big thinker. My brain rapidly atrophies when I spend too much effort figuring out how to convey a though in 255 characters; even more so when I read them.<\/p>\n<p>I saw Keen at SXSW a couple of years ago. It was a small room with only a few &#8211; albeit notable &#8211; people sitting on metal, folded chairs. He gave his talk. Three-quarters of the room sat with folded arms, and then moved in to set him straight.<\/p>\n<p>Even egalitarians dislike being contradicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to Keen&#8217;s new book, Digital Vertigo. I read Cult of the Amateur, and while I work in, rely on and have spent my whole life in technology and social media, I still think he&#8217;s a voice of reason. It seems impossible to have discourse without polarization. I don&#8217;t think Keen is inviting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cxthom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cxthom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cxthom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cxthom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cxthom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cxthom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cxthom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cxthom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cxthom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}