Twittering

The following is a selection of comments culled from Twitter over the past 12 hours.

everetttrue does anyone else find Chris Anderson groundlessly optimistic?

angusbatey@everetttrue You mean the Wired bloke? "Hopelessly naive" would be closer to the mark. Or maybe "head-in-clouds dangerous", when it comes to his vision of a world where facilitators get rich and creators starve. (Not that that's how he sees it, I don't suppose.)

everetttrue yep, that's the one. seems odd to me that he's taken serious, but he's a good talking point nonetheless

angusbatey@everetttrue I'm beginning to understand the reasons for the rise of people like that. He helps make people whose relationship to creativity is essentially parasitical feel like they're riders at the gates of the new dawn. Elevating him to guru status makes them all feel validated. The medium becomes more important than the message. Don't worry - one day a rain will come and wash these electronic streets. I fucking hope. Though the borders look parched right now and too many plants are dying.

everetttrue Anyone read The Cult Of The Amateur? Care to summarise?

angusbatey@everetttrue TCotA condensed: "Anderson is wrong! Creators' rights are good! More people should agree with me, but I'm not quite sure why." It was a book I felt needed to be written, but by someone else. He's got his heart in the right place but spends too long wringing his hands and not enough coming up with solutions.

seaninsound@everetttrue Internet Life Is Rubbish. Or just read the first chapter or an int with him.

brainlove@everetttrue Summary: the internet is the end of anyone knowing what is good any more in a rising tide of home-made trash.

INTERMISSION (lots of twitpics from lilyroseallen)

susioneill@everetttrue Will Page @ PRS disproved Anderson's Long Tail theory and the freemium model doesnt work in a low advertising downturn

everetttrue interesting link Long Tail Theory contradicted

everetttrue i've just had my followers increased by 27% in the space of a few hours. Are you all here for Chris Anderson? Bourdieu? The Cult Of The Amateur? Or was it the mention on Drowned In Sound?