How apt.

"I can’t think of any other industry that harbours more latent scepticism to academia and formal training than the media."

Blogger Markos Moulitsas points out that Andrew Keen wrongly claimed in The Cult of the Amateur that he has no "professional training". The journalism degree apparently doesn’t count.

"On Wednesday, October 17, panelists Andrew Keen (Cult of the Amateur), Leonard Brody (NowPublic.com) and Rahaf Harfoush (Wikinomics researcher) delve into the future of news."

Tom Coates: "The future comes, for good or ill, whether you like it or not. The best you can do in such a situation is try and work to fix the issues you see. No market for decent commentary and opinion? Look for a business model that could support it!"

"I thought my experiement with soliciting ideas for my column a few weeks ago was quite successful. I think I’ll drop the crowd-sourcing label since it strikes me a bit pretentious. …"

"There are a lot of people, confused and worried about the uncertain future of journalism who need to be a part of the discussion. Calling on Skube to retire or accusing Keen of Stalinism is not likely to make them feel there is a debate worth joining."

Clay Shirky: "A Luddite argument is one in which some broadly useful technology is opposed on the grounds that it will discomfit the people who benefit from the inefficiency the technology destroys … especially if the discomfort of the newly challenged