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TechDirt has just posted a response to Nicholas Carr's ill-founded post on the Amorality of Web 2.0, in which he claims "the promoters of Web 2.0 venerate the amateur and distrust the professional." As the Techdirt guys point out, that just isn't the case:
Carr's making some noise again, this time complaining that an internet made up of "amateurs" is a bad thing, using Wikipedia as his straw man...As with others who have trashed Wikipedia, he goes on about why you should never trust amateurs, and that the world needs "experts." While it's absolutely true that experts are important -- hell, we've based our entire business on that very concept -- what Carr and others agreeing with him seem to be (conveniently) forgetting is that amateurs and experts are not mutually exclusive. Combined, they actually create a much better solution.