{"id":258,"date":"2007-04-30T12:51:29","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T20:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2007-12-09T09:10:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T15:58:44","slug":"attacking-web-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Attacking Web 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewkeen.typepad.com\/the_great_seduction\/2007\/04\/the_guardian_ge.html\">Andrew Keen blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Five excellent articles about the manifold hazards of citizen media have appeared in the last few days:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Bobby Johnson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/technology.guardian.co.uk\/news\/story\/0,,2058879,00.html\">shocking<\/a> revelation that abusive online images of children have quadrupled over the last three years.<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Freedland&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/story\/0,,2054180,00.html\">withering<\/a> critique of the blogosphere. It&#8217;s just a place for &quot;point scoring males&quot; he tells us &#8212; &quot;a stuffy meeting room on a bad night.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>James Harkin&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/technology.guardian.co.uk\/opinion\/story\/0,,2057975,00.html\"> stomach churning <\/a>description of a suicide broadcast live on the Internet. Having read this, most of us will want to recycle our webcams.<\/li>\n<li>John Naughton&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/technology.guardian.co.uk\/news\/story\/0,,2057321,00.html\">exposure<\/a> of the dire environmental consequences of gigantic server farms &#8212; the &quot;brick and mortar&quot; reality of Web 2.0 (&quot;welcome to 1984, folks&quot;)<\/li>\n<li>Victor Keegan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/technology.guardian.co.uk\/weekly\/story\/0,,2054402,00.html\">confession<\/a> that blogging has failed to really capture the imagination of most people.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Keen blogs: Five excellent articles about the manifold hazards of citizen media have appeared in the last few days: Bobby Johnson&#8217;s shocking revelation that abusive online images of children have quadrupled over the last three years. 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