Web 2.0: 'Reading more, knowing less'  Idealisation of the
amateur damaging us, says Andrew Keen  Our increasing thirst for
free user-generated online content means we are "reading more
but knowing less".  Author Andrew Keen cites Wikipedia as an
example of how the Web 2.0 concept is seducing us "into creating
an inane, chaotic and indulgent culture in which we trivialise
ourselves and everything around us".  Keen was speaking to PC
Answers magazine about his book The Cult of the Amateur. He
argues that user-generated sources of media and information such
as Wikipedia and YouTube are "unreliable, biased, poorly written
and corrupting".  Wikipedia 'unreliable'  "I think Wikipedia is
a really interesting phenomenon," Keen says. "Clearly it does
satisfy a certain thirst for information. My problem with
Wikipedia, though, is that often it's unreliable, it lacks any
kind of context and it caters to an increasingly trivialising
and inane kind of culture.  "In theory, the crowd is this
infinite editor. But in realit