I was insulted when Keen attacked me for being named the person of the year last year on Time magazine. Not only was he upset about me being person of the year, he started yelling at me! Not only should you not do this in person to someone in a professional setting, but when you yell at someone in a book you want them to buy, you must be pretty full of yourself.
This same YOU! rules Wikipedia, where the knowledge consumer is also the knowledge creator. YOU! defines YouTube, where the tens of thousands of daily videos are both produced and watched by on and the same. YOU!
Okay, so I am the person of the year for all these reasons, and then some, but Keen doesn’t seem to keen about that. But here’s the real deal. Keen isn’t too happy about this because he does indeed believe, as Colbert asserted, in elitism. He doesn’t want a universal you to be in charge, but prefers if it was a few me’s that ran the world. Perhaps he really misses the point of the new Web, but perhaps he gets it, and just doesn’t want to give up the spotlight.
