DISQUS

howardlindzon · 3 years ago

Guys a putz. By the way I love your blog but at $248,000 (according to Technoratti) I would understand if you sold it and stiopped writing :)

Mathew Ingram · 3 years ago

Thanks, Howard. Unfortunately, it's only worth that much in virtual bubble dollars, not real money :-)

engtech · 3 years ago

Thanks for pointing Andrew Keen out. Makes for a fun read. :)

Mathew Ingram · 3 years ago

Thanks, engtech. Definitely fun for the whole family.

FOWL · 3 years ago

Thanks for this post Matthew. I just got my first taste of this master of modern media Andrew Keen on a debate on the TVO program The Agenda. You should be able to download a pod cast of the "debate" on TVO's website. Man, this guy is swift. Totally grasping at straws in a desperate attempt to maintain a monopoly on media and people's thoughts by the elite. A sane woman totally mauled this guy with rationale. He looked traumatised by the end of the "debate", eyes desperately darting back and forth trying to invent some type of retort to sanity and this "dangerous egalitarianism".

Mathew Ingram · 3 years ago

Thanks, Fowl -- I will definitely take a listen. Maybe someone will upload it to YouTube :-)

FOWL · 3 years ago

Thanks for the comment. I stumbled across your page on my way to find andrew somewhere on the net to tell him how much I appreciate his great "debating" skills. And lo and behold, the luddite has a blog!!!!!
http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/the_great_seducti...
There is my earnest thank you note.

FOWL · 3 years ago

I'll post the message here, since likely it'll be deleted soon enough.
"Wow Andrew! You blew me away! I just saw your "debate" on The Agenda and was glad to finally hear someone on tv expressing my views, because I am only a poor uneducated peasent unable to speak for myself. I immediately rushed onto the interenet (not having learnt how to write I had to do it right away before your name left my head. It's sad how kids nowadays only know how to "type", which obviously isn't the same thing at all.) to find out where I could find your books, as the internet is useful for some things, right? when I happened upon this blog. Needless to say I am now depressed and dismayed. The great messiah of Elitist media control (I like to refer to you as the Great Orator, as your snesible pleas of "Give me one example" sure got me to forget that your opponent on the show had given many, that's why we need clever folk like you, mein Fuhror.) had a blog of his own, contributing to the moral decay of egalitarianism. Just a few short moments ago, I believed you were a skilled and trained expert of public opinion, now I find you wallowing in the depraved depths of the unwashed internet. Woe is me. I can only surmise that you have stooped to such a low because you are not annointed by the Lords of the Mainstream Media. As such, I cannot allow my peasent mind to accept your views as "worthy" or "annointed". I would ask that in order to reach the most people and be taken seriously again, you must remove all mention of you or your thoughts from the internet. Only then can we truly have a happy homogenised populace. Heil Keen."

Mathew Ingram · 3 years ago

That's quite something, Fowl. Nice work.