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Area of interest: New media
Journals/Organisation: The Independent | The Daily Telegraph
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About: Critic of the Internet and author of The Cult of the Amateur - http://www.ajkeen.com/bio
Education: University of London, University of Sarajevo, UC Berkeley
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Forthcoming work: Digital Vertigo: Loneliness, Anxiety and Inequality in the Social Media Age
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The Independent
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Articles: 2009
- It is up to the unwired class to get online and save themselves - Is innovation fair? Has the internet revolution resulted in more social justice and equality for everyone in society? - 8th June (Final column)
- In this age of the unthinkable, we must act like revolutionaries - What's the connection between Michael Moritz, Silicon Valley's leading venture capitalist, and Hizbollah, the Middle East's leading terrorist organisation? - 1st June
- The hyped Wolfram Alpha gets a delta minus from me - What is the future of wisdom on the internet? Let me offer two quite different versions. The first is scientific wisdom distributed out over the global network by a supposedly super sophisticated computer - 25th May
- An Apple-owned Twitter bird would be a cat among the pigeons - The killer song this spring in Silicon Valley has been the real-time chirruping of the little Twitter bird - 11th May
- The Tipping Point has finally arrived for the publishing industry - The medium isn't always the message - 4th May
- Why Apple isn’t feeling the bite even as other tech titans stumble - As the global economic crisis shows little sign of relenting, it’s been another brutal week in tech - 27th April
- The word in the hallways is that the days of blogging are over - Is blogging dead? Last year, questioning the future of the iconic weblog would have had me sectioned. But today, in the face of the dramatic explosion of real-time social media services such as Twitter, the future of blogging is far from certain - 20th April
- Friendfeed is the new social network – but you didn't hear it first - Twitter might be the newest new thing for millions of internet users but, for most of Silicon Valley's geekerati, it is Friendfeed that remains the hottest social networking application - 13th April
- British libraries need to start shaking the dust off and go Dutch - 'Are libraries old or new media?" I tweeted last week, assuming that my opinionated Twitter buddies would tell me that libraries – with their crusty old gatekeepers, shelves of dusty books and strict "no talking" policies – are quintessential old media - 6th April
- Obama needs to stay in touch with his 13m internet soldiers - Is the BlackBerry addicted Chicago politician now using the internet to transform America? - 30th March
- British papers take note and begin to think the unthinkable - Last week, America's digerati were abuzz with the gloomy words of a couple of the country's most lucid internet prophets - 23rd March
- Google calls the tune after the day the music died on YouTube - Google had been unable to cut a new licensing or royalties deal for YouTube content with the Performing Rights Society (PRS), the body that collects royalties for music artists - 16th March
- The peer who's opened the debate on the internet and the mind - It's not often that I get asked by a Baroness to make a public appeal on her behalf. But then Baroness Greenfield is no ordinary Life Peer - 9th March (see: Social websites harm children's brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist)
- Real-time video is the future of the internet. No, really this time - Real-time video was the future in 2003. The big question is whether it still remains in the future in 2009 - 2nd March
- Twitter need only look at Facebook to see its future problems - February 2009 might well go down as the month when Twitter replaced Facebook as the hottest and coolest company in Silicon Valley - 23rd February
- Why plastic is the logical choice for a world without paper - Adieu print? Last Monday Plastic Logic, a UK-US technology start-up that is pioneering a portable plastic electronic screen, announced a series of deals with publishing companies that will, I suspect, be seen one day as the death knell of magazines and newspapers - 16th February
- Will we see these great white snarks turn into Mr Nice Guys? - In a piece that aroused much hatred of its own, CNET technology columnist Rafe Needleman identified the five most hated online personalities - 9th February
- An American who wants Americans to be globally well-informed - Tip O'Neill, the former Speaker of America's House of Representatives, famously said that all politics is local - 26th January
- This healthy industry now has the printed word in its sights - In 2008, it became obvious that news is shifting from print to dynamic micro-blogging services like Twitter - 5th January
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