Q1: Andrew Keen defines "democratized media" as the was people are always connected to the Internet, and how Web 2.0 would democratize media, business' and even the Government. Keen originally was very involved with wanting to expand the music world through the Internet. Once everyone had access to the Internet and people began being able to share their own non-professional, self-made music. Keen hated this because he believed it belittled expertise, experience and talent. To "disintermediate" it is the act of doing away with all the professional levels to go through in order to have a professional blog, movie reviews, any sort of talents, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHH3Rqjnj38
Q2: I believe Andrew Keen and Douglass Rushkoff have similar, yet different views on Web 2.0. Keen has a very negative, pessimistic outlook on how the Internet has evolved and how it basically rules our lives right now. Rushkoff also believes our lives revolve too much around the Internet yet he does more research in how and why the Internet has become what it is today. Rushkoff is able to at least wrap his head around the fact that the Internet is still evolving and a lot of what we do in our everyday lives from blogging, to chatting, to business meetings surround the use of the Internet. At least Rushkoff is accepting of this phenomenon, whereas Keen feels because of all of the amateurs on the Internet, there are no experienced professionals in any given field. He especially does not like the fact that websites such as Pandora, used for listening to music, can predict what type of music you would like to listen to based on what you are currently listening to. Because Keen is so into the sharing and spreading of music, he thinks that "artificial intelligence" is not as accurate as taste.
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