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The author′s metamorphosis from believer into skeptic of Web 2.0. (Para.1-7)
The author′s original Internet dream
Making the world a musical place
A pioneer in the first Internet gold rush
Founding Audiocafe.com
The author's transformation
It lacks cinematic drama.
On a two-day camping trip in September 2004
FOO Camp
Friends of O′Reilly Camp
With a couple of hundred Silicon Valley utopians
Friends of multi-millionaire founder Tim O' Reilly
unconventionally rich, richly unconventional
habor a messianic faith
A shared hostility toward traditional media and entertainment unites them.
In Sebastopol--the headquarters of O′Reilly Media
An exclusive, invitation-only event
Each fall, hosted by O′Reilly Media
"Democratization" on every lips
All were going to be democratized by Web 2.0
Media
Information
Knowledge
Content
Audience
Author
...
The Internet would democratize Big Media, Big Business, Big Government, even Big Experts.
Emptiness at the heart of their conversation
The author's dream had fallen on deaf ears
The promise of using technology to bring more culture to the masses had been drowned out by FOO Campers' collective cry for a democratized media.
The author realized FOO Camp was a sneak preview
A beta version of the Web 2.0 revolution
They not only talked about new media but also were new media.
Everyone was simultaneously broadcasting themselves, but nobody was listening.
The law of digital Darwinism
The survival of the loudest and most opinionated
The author stopped participating and sat back and watched
The author′s criticism of Web 2.0. (Para.8-13)
The dangers of democratization
Undermining truth
Souring civic discourse
Belittling expertise, experience, and talent
The great seduction
The Web 2.0 revolution′s promise to bring more truth to more people
A smokescreen
More depth of information
More global perspective
More unbiased opinion from dispassionate observes
Real situation
Superficial observations of the world around us rather than deep analysis
Shrill opinion rather than considered judgement
Harm of user-generated content
Decimating the ranks of our cultural gatekeepers
As professional critics, journalists, editors, musicians, moviemakers, and other purveyors of expert information are being replaced by amateur bloggers, hack reviewers, homespun moviemakers, and attic recording artists.
The radically new business models suck the economic value out of traditional media and cultural content.
The models are based on user-generated material
The real consequence of Web 2.0 revolution
Less culture
Less reliable news
A chaos of useless information
The blurring, obfuscation, and even disappearance of truth
Threatening thr quality of civil public discourse
Encouraging plagiarism and intellectual property theft
Stifling creativity
All that Web 2.0 really delivers is more dubious contents from anonymous sources, hijacking our time and playing to our gullibility.
The author′s explanation of his stance. (Para.14-17)
Proof
The author gives an example.
"Al Gore′s Army of Penguins"
Featured on YouTube
A crude "self-made" satire of Al Gore's pro-environment movie An Inconvenient Truth
Depicting a penguin version of Al Gore preaching to other penguins about global warming
It belittles the seriousness of Al Gore′s message.
A big lie
The video is nothing more than political spin, enabled and perpetuated by the anonymity of Web 2.0,, masquerading as independent art.
The flattened, editor-free world
A lie can make its way around the world before the truth has the chance to put its boots on.
Someone can post their amateurish creations at will
Independent videographers
Podcasters
Bloggers
No one is being paid to check their credentials or evaluate their material
Untrustworthy content of every stripe
Media is vulnerable.
Trust and truth are the whipping boys of the Web 2.0 revolution
One chilling reality
The author′s metamorphosis from believer into skeptic is not very exciting and surprising, and lacks dramatic conflicts.
In the economic and cultural benefits of technology
The Web 2.0, characterized by the active participation of the users, it′s undermining the authority of learned experts and the work of professionals, threatening the quality of civil public discourse, encouraging plagiarism bluring the truth.