Andrew Keen's The Cult of the Amateur (set to be published in June 2007 by Currency) is a criticism of Web 2.0 that foregrounds the crowding out of pertinent, intelligent discourse in favor of biased, self-centric and amateurish content made possible by the spread of web publishing & authoring tools.

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• Web 2.0--the folly of amateurs?
• Andrew Keen from the Britannica blog]
• Andrew Keen, the Web's Darth Vader?] from C|Net (5.3.07)
• Lawrence Lessig's take on The Cult of the Amateur
• Rise of the Amateur class from the Whats New Media blog
• Is the web killing our culture? from 37 Signals (6.29.07)