No Paper, No Knowledge!!!
October 1, 2007
No diploma from a credited school then you are not worthy enough to contribute to the or even wiki no matter how much knowledge you have on a subject if you don’t have a degree related to it then you know nothing. All of Keens statements from his book suggest that the “monkey” is not a reliable source to post information for users to read and that the only people that should be given authority to write about something like pykrete are scientist who can break down the chemicals that make it such a great material. He also goes on to say that newspapers can do better research and interviews than that of some “Monkey” because they have money to pay so called “Experts” to go out and get the truth. Did Assignment Zero not do this with out being funded? In Assignment Zero you had “Monkeys” going out and doing the research and interviews with out receiving a reward. Sure Assignment Zero didn’t last long but it wasn’t because it wasn’t funded but the fact there were to many “Monkeys” working on the project that it became unorganized. To further back my point Keen says:
anyone can contribute and because there are no centralized gatekeepers
He refers to “gatekeepers” but for what reason? As we talked about in class the “Gatekeepers” keep knowledge in and only allow it to be shared by a select few. Who are the select few? People who pay way to much money to get a piece of paper that declares them to be smarter than everyone who doesn’t have a degree. Here he is on the Colbert Report and clearly suggest this Colbert Report with Andrew Keen. This is also on youtube so I guess someone “stole it”.
