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When someone is not only as intellectually rigorous, but as emotionally mature, humanely empathic and just simply as good-hearted as Dave Weinberger, it's a joy to watch him dismantle a smarmy, clever poseur like Andrew Keen, as can be seen in this piece in the Wall Street Journal.
To say that Dave humiliated Keen would be too kind; he simply drove him from the stage by revealing what a heartless fraud Keen's own arguments proved him to be.
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I found this dissection of Keen's argument, in debate with Emily Bell of The Guardian, even more embarrassing for Keen.
Posted by: Jon Husband | August 26, 2007 at 06:35 PM
Thanks, Jon, I'll check out the Guardian piece. Keen's arguments are fundamentally bankrupt, from my POV, provocative for the sake of provocation.
Posted by: Tom Guarriello | August 27, 2007 at 07:26 AM