Who is Geert Lovink?

His most recent project about YouTube

Introduction: The Pride and Glory of Web 2.0

Concepts: "free cooperation," "organized networks," "distributed aesthetics," and "tactical media" (x)

Three phases(x):

1) scientific, precommercial, text-only period

2) euphoric, speculative period cumulating in dot.com bubble

3) post 9/11 period and new Web 2.0 mini-bubble

Nicholas Carr and skepticism about "participation, collectivism, virtual communities, amateurism" (xi)

How does Lovink's meaning of "free" differ from Lessig and Stahlman (xii-xv)

The Theo van Gogh controversy - Submission (xv-xviii)

How does the Internet encourage polarization rather than consensus? (xvi)

Bumper sticker communication (xxii) and the rise of "snackable" entertainment

Chapter 1: Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse

the aim is "neither to promote nor to deconstruct citizen journalism" (1)

"creative nihilism that openly questions the hegemony of mass media" (1)

blogs as "both private and public" and "characterized by a culture of desired affiliation" (2)

technical definition of blog (3)

interesting bits (4) Clive Thompson on "This Boring Headline Written by Google" and Kevin Delaney on "You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well"

vague media (5)

Michel Foucault and "technology of the self" (6)

Danah Boyd on reaction to surveillance (7) and need for validation (34)

Blogging and the news industry (10)

Moronic cynicism (16)

Subjective rules for blogs (20)

Does blogging promote democracy and civil society? Blogging in Iran (25-26)

Informality of blogging (26)

Dismissal of "rhetoric, aesthetics, and ethics" (30)

Richard Stahlman and free software (31)

Cult of the amateur (33)