The Cult of the Amateur: Reviewed by Terry Freedman

About a month ago all hell broke loose on the internet when Andrew Keen apparently compared bloggers to monkeys.

But does The Cult of the Amateur have anything to offer the teacher and subject leader of ICT (educational technology) in a school?

Dangerously irrelevant?

Sometimes, lots of seemingly disparate events and thoughts occur, which in retrospect may be seen to be part of an emerging pattern. Clearly, there is a danger of seeing a pattern where none really exists, such as when we assign shapes to the formation of stars. But in my case I think I am experiencing a genuine discomfort about the relevance of the so-called edublogosphere.

No monkey business

After last week's hoo hah about Andrew Keen's "The Cult of the Amateur", in which he purportedly drew an analogy between bloggers and monkeys at a load of typewriters, it's refreshing to hear a professional journalist talk about the value of bloggers.