<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3c804bf9-2772-429d-a13c-1abcc3361a68/2E4C7E79-7BAC-48D9-82D6-EFA96C29B2E5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://techliberation.com/2008/09/06/grouping-recent-net-books-internet-optimists-vs-pessimists/" href="http://techliberation.com/2008/09/06/grouping-recent-net-books-internet-optimists-vs-pessimists/" style="font-size: 11px;">techliberation.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://techliberation.com/2008/09/06/grouping-recent-net-books-internet-optimists-vs-pessimists/">A number of very interesting books have been released over the past year or two which debate how the Internet is reshaping our culture and the economy. I’ve reviewed a couple of them here but I have been waiting to compile a sort of mega-book review once I found a sensible way to conceptually group them together. I’m not going to have time to cover each of them here in the detail they deserve, but I think I have at least found a sensible way to categorize them. For lack of better descriptors, I’ve divided these books and thinkers into two camps: “Internet optimists” versus “Internet Pessimists.” Here’s a list of some of the individuals and books (or other articles and blogs) that I believe epitomize these two camps of thinking:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://techliberation.com/2008/09/06/grouping-recent-net-books-internet-optimists-vs-pessimists/">Adherents & Their Books / Writings</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://techliberation.com/2008/09/06/grouping-recent-net-books-internet-optimists-vs-pessimists/"><TD width="319" valign="top"><P align="center" class="MsoNormal"><STRONG><SPAN>Internet Optimists</SPAN></STRONG></p> </TD><TD width="319" valign="top"><P align="center" class="MsoNormal"><STRONG><SPAN>Internet Pessimists</SPAN></STRONG></P></TD></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://techliberation.com/2008/09/06/grouping-recent-net-books-internet-optimists-vs-pessimists/"><TD width="319" valign="top"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Yochai Benkler, <EM><A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300110561?ie=UTF8&tag=techdirtcom&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300110561" linkindex="1" set="yes">The Wealth of Networks</A></EM></SPAN></p> </TD><TD width="319" valign="top"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Andrew Keen, <EM><A href="http://www.amazon.com/Media-Unlimited-Revised-Torrent-Overwhelms/dp/0805086897/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212071287&sr=1-1" linkindex="2" set="yes">The Cult of the Amateur</A></EM></SPAN></P></TD></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://techliberation.com/2008/09/06/grouping-recent-net-books-internet-optimists-vs-pessimists/"><TD width="319" valign="top"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Chris Anderson, <EM><A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401302378?ie=UTF8&tag=techdirtcom&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1401302378" linkindex="3" set="yes">The Long Tail</A> </EM>and “<A href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all" linkindex="4" set="yes">Free</A>!”</SPAN></p> </TD><TD width="319" valign="top"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Lee Siegel, <EM><A href="http://www.amazon.com/Against-Machine-Being-Human-Electronic/dp/0385522657/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212071460&sr=1-1" linkindex="5" set="yes">Against the Machine</A></EM></SPAN></P></TD></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2E4C7E79-7BAC-48D9-82D6-EFA96C29B2E5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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