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Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen is the author of the book, Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture. The book has been published in twelve languages and was short-listed for the 2008 Higham’s Business Technology Book of the Year award. He writes a column about new media for The Independent.
I first met Justin Kan and his trademark webcam in May 2007 at Los Angeles’ landmark Roosevelt hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. Back then, Justin Kan had his own personal Internet show: an always-on video streaming act, a digital version of Peter Weir’s 1998 movie The Truman Show, which involved Kan attaching a webcam contraption to his head and broadcasting himself, 24-hours a day, on the Internet.
Kan and I were both appearing at the appropriately named Always-On conference, an event put on by Tony Perkins, the founder of Red Herring magazine and a noted Silicon Valley impresario. As we sat in the lobby of the Roosevelt hotel, once the haunt of old media icons like Gable, Lombard and Monroe and now packed with brash new media stars like Kan, the 24 year-old Yale graduate told me that he planned to transform Justin.tv from a site that just broadcasting himself into a Web 2.0 style portal that enabled everyone to stream themselves on the Internet.
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Kan and I were both appearing at the appropriately named Always-On conference, an event put on by Tony Perkins, the founder of Red Herring magazine and a noted Silicon Valley impresario. As we sat in the lobby of the Roosevelt hotel, once the haunt of old media icons like Gable, Lombard and Monroe and now packed with brash new media stars like Kan, the 24 year-old Yale graduate told me that he planned to transform Justin.tv from a site that just broadcasting himself into a Web 2.0 style portal that enabled everyone to stream themselves on the Internet.
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