On Firing Day, Busy Wired Editor Had Other Places To Be

Chris Anderson has plenty of distractions from editing Wired, including a lucrative sideline on the global lecture circuit and a tour to promote his new book. Anderson's prior commitments even removed him from the office on Wired's layoff day. (Updated) More »

Unwiring Wired

For a digital bible, Wired has been turning surprisingly analog over the past year. The latest regressions: The publication just fired two top editors from Wired.com and may soon lose the founders of Reddit.com. More »

Chris Anderson: Asshole Interviewee

Wired editor Chris Anderson has fully morphed from a journalist, who knows what it's like to have to interview other people, into a celebrity, who has no time for these fucking reporters and their boring questions. "Journalism," what's that? More »

Condé Nast's Grumpy East Coast-West Coast Feud

Big Ideas Author Malcolm Gladwell, a Manhattanite of the New Yorker, has issued a smackdown review of Free, the book from Big Ideas Author Chris Anderson, a Berkeleyan of San Francisco's Wired. If that's not provocative enough, Gladwell sounds downright grumpy. More »

How the Crescent City Revealed Wired's Plagiarizing Editor

How did the Virginia Quarterly Review connect Chris Anderson's book to Wikipedia, thus unraveling a plagiarism scandal? A strange use of parentheses. More »

The Case Against Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson's plagiarism scandal is still unfolding; Brooklyn writer Ed Champion has found instances where the Free author copied material he was supposed to be summarizing. But there was grumbling about Wired's editor long before his book scandal. More »

Wired Editor Steals Content for Book About How Content Should be Free

Chris Anderson has been caught lifting huge chunks out of Wikipedia for his book Free. The irony speaks for itself. But it's worth noting that the Wired editor's excuses are disconcertingly clichéd. More »

Tina Fey Joins Twitter

You can put Tina Fey on Twitter but you can't make her tweet. Chris Anderson, though? Don't even get the Wired editor started. More »
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The Twitterati Go For "Dong"

If you have no idea what people on Twitter are talking about, fear not. They have no idea what they're talking about, either. The latest mutterings from Chris Anderson, John Byrne, and other online twits: More »
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The Twitterati Are Left Crying in Istanbul

Anyone have a handkerchief? What? Oh, nothing in particular — just the tearjerking phenomenon of seemingly intelligent people like Jake Tapper, Rachel Sklar, and Paul Carr spending so much time sharing so little on Twitter: More »
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The Twitterati Are Totally Losing It

Today, a media elite replete with tweets thought about all the things they no longer have. And boy, did Wired's editor get mad at a Danish reporter! Also, food, food, and more food: More »
Today on Twitter: Media people being pretentious, from Bonnie Fuller to Wired's Chris Anderson and beyond! More »
Twitter users are a sorry bunch. Especially the media! Errata, excuses, and eye-rolling from today's tweets: More »