Web 2.0: 'Generally Worthless' - David Needle, Internet News

Talk about walking into the lion's den. Controversial author Andrew Keen participated in a panel discussion before a roomful of Web entrepreneurs, executives and online media types in the wrap-up session of the AlwaysOn conference here. If that wasn't enough, a giant screen onstage projected bloggers' snide comments on the proceedings in real time. Keen, author of The Cult of The Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture, stuck to his guns in a spirited debate with the equally iconoclastic tech analyst George Gilder. Keen didn't waste any time declaring most so-called Web 2.0 content to be extremely poor and hard to monetize. "The vast majority of Web video is un-watchable, the content unreadable and generally worthless," said Keen.

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