If you are not paying for the product, you are the product. - Tim O'Reilly

I find, Andrew Keen's, his whole pitch, I think he was just pure and simple looking for an angle, to create some controversy and sell a book, I don't think there's any substance whatever to his rants.

Collective intelligence. Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications... We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.

Learning JavaScript used to mean you weren't a serious software developer. Today, not learning Javascript means the same thing.