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nerdfight
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, Big Ideas Author Chris Anderson, a Berkeleyan of San Francisco's Wired. If that's not provocative enough, Gladwell sounds downright grumpy. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by T.A.N.: That Wired and The New Yorker are the two money-losingest titles (or even among them) feels so wrong. Does it... 7 Responses | Other threads
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scandal
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 »
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By Ryan TateComment by Tremonius: When I was a boy in the fifties, and listening to AM station WNOE from New Orleans a thousand miles... 2 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
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 » -
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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 »
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By Ryan TateComment by Stefanie Kechayas: Actually, I'm doing my masters in new media communications and I regularly use Wikipedia as a reference to find primary... 4 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
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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By Ryan TateComment by Widget Economist: Oh this dumb cunt again. Tiny Fey is not your "geeky" friend. She's not "cool" with you. In fact, if... 4 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
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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By Owen ThomasComment by Banjo-Sea Kitten: "...@Brian Faughnan and for lunch we had Hate Sandwiches topped off with Lies Ala Mode." I'm awesome, I know... michellemalkin 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
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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media
Wired.com 'Gutted' in Conde Layoffs
More detail on the layoffs at Conde Nast Digital today (which is not an April Fool's joke, okay): Wired.com was reportedly hit hard. Internal turf war? More » -
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Google, No Longer the Land of the Free
The accountants have taken over the Googleplex, once a hotbed of amiably unprofitable innovation. The notion that ads would pay the way for everything has been dropped — and "fee" is replacing "free." More »
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twitterati
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 »
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twitterati
The Twitterati Are Not as Awesome as They Think They Are
Today on Twitter: Media people being pretentious, from Bonnie Fuller to Wired's Chris Anderson and beyond! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Gospel X: re: headline No one who uses Twitter is awesome. No one. "Twit" doesn't even mean anything positive! 7 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Have Many Regrets
Twitter users are a sorry bunch. Especially the media! Errata, excuses, and eye-rolling from today's tweets: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Smitros: This reminds me of a question based on Devo. If you don't have the time or resources for both in one... 7 Responses | Other threads
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internet famous
Julia Allison offers to join Wired marketing department
Thanks for the cover, Julia Allison writes to Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson, with the curious caveat: "I would never want your editorial prowess to be called into question over me," and a heavily dropped hint that she's not done with Wired yet. What's her game? More »
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internet famous
Wired rushes Julia Allison cover online — but who's using whom?
Wired's August cover, featuring Internet nobody Julia Allison, wouldn't normally be going online for another week or so, when the ink-on-dead-trees version hits subscribers' mailboxes. (How pre-postindustrial!) We asked Wired executive editor Bob Cohn why the magazine rushed it online. He told us the posting got pushed up a few days owing to "all the attention online" for the as-yet-unseen cover story — whose subject is how to stir up attention online. More » -
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Harvard Business Review pins The Long Tail on the donkey
Harvard associate professor Anita Elberse has penned a long article for the Harvard Business Review that used data from Rhapsody and Australian DVD-by-mail distributor Quickflix to demonstrate that rather than the Internet enabling a "long tail" of niche media which publishers should embrace, the blockbuster strategy is still what pays dividends for content producers. In other words, Elberse argues that media is still a hits business, and that the Internet is not necessarily the democratizing force The Long Tail author Chris Anderson says it is. Anderson says that Elberse's analysis isn't wrong, per se, just that they disagree on exactly what the "head" and "tail" mean. Except that Elberse worked with Anderson on researching his book, so one imagines the Wired magazine editor explained it thoroughly. Funny, it's as though two different people analyzing the same data have come to entirely different conclusions about the "truth."
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google
Wired editor Chris Anderson's latest book proposal would throw scientific method under a bus
Google worship has gone too far. The latest prayer to the pretender to God-like omniscience comes from Wired editor Chris Anderson (and if it drums up enough controversy, it's bound to end in a book deal). He argues that we should give up on the allegedly outmoded maxim that "correlation is not causation," because now we're in the "Petabyte Age" and we can manipulate so much data that we can solve our problems without having to understand them. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by /pd: What gives ? This is not what I normally read on Valleywag. Echo : How did this slip thru ?... more » | Other threads
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amazon.com
Jeff Bezos pitches the Kindle, BookSurge to skeptical mob at Book Expo America
LOS ANGELES, CA — Jeff Bezos pitched the Kindle to attendees at Book Expo America today in downtown LA, and then sat down with Wired editor and author of The Long Tail Chris Anderson for a little chit-chat. The takeaway? Much like Apple, Bezos uses the euphemism "customer experience" for "vertical integration," especially when it comes to the new Kindle and the requirement that print-on-demand publishers work with Amazon subsidiary BookSurge. After the jump, some choice quotes from before Anderson's questions (presumably from his notes, on regular old paper, pictured here) started to veer into extreme audience irrelevance when he brought up EC2 and Bezos' space ambitions. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by colonelpanic: The Sonics, Kindle and Microsoft Bob. Three things that we wish had stayed in Seattle. More technology flops. more » | Other threads
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party report
Wired celebrates 15 years of turning a cult into a culture (and back again)
MIDTOWN WEST — "You're a normal person," Wired editor Chris Anderson asked me at Wired's 15th anniversary party last night in New York. "What do you make of all this?" He nodded his head toward the four corners of the roof top, crowded with the Wired set. In response, I said something about the thick-rimmed black frames and all the scarves. But for reading-comprehension points, I should have said I felt like I was in the midst of a cult. Because that's what Conde Nast's Wired is all about, Anderson and Wired cofounder Louis Rossetto told us in their speeches: turning the cult of technology into a culture, but keeping it as fervent as a cult. That and covers of a nude Jenna Fischer and LonelyGirl15 in bed, of course. Below, photos of the faithful. More »
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the long tail
Julia Allison Is Chris Anderson's Tail Tonight
Wired editor Chris Anderson tonight came face-to-face with the "Long Tail," his oft-cited metaphor for low-grade internet fame, via an encounter after the National Magazine Awards with fameball Julia Allison. Star Editor-At-Large Allison worked Anderson hard, no doubt as part of her relentless effort to take the "proto" out of her protocelebrity — to be more than tail, basically. She reports on her blog that she chatted Anderson up for 20 minutes and ended up "bopping him enthusiastically." Wait, Julia. Didn't you just tell the Times you were going to stop using your "pink-encased loaded weapon" this way?? Anyway, alternate photo captions for the picture above are totally welcome after the jump. Even if you're drunk. Especially if you're drunk. [Julia Allison: 1, 2, 3, 4]
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clips
Charlie Rose on Charlie Rose on the Internet, by Samuel Beckett
Over the years, Charlie Rose has hosted Silicon Valley titans like Wired editor Chris Anderson, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, and Google cofounder Sergey Brin on his late-night public television interview show. When Facebook launched its Beacon advertising program in New York, Rose played master of ceremonies. But not until now, with the discovery of this clip titled "'Charlie Rose' by Samuel Beckett," has Rose effectively explicated the industry. More » -
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"Free!" issue of Wired not actually free
We heard through the grapevine that copies of this month's Wired were being taken off newsstands without payment — because unsuspecting readers thought the giant "Free!" on the cover meant the magazine was available no charge. Wired editor-in-chief Greg Anderson tells Valleywag:The mag was indeed free (but not at newsstands). There have been some scattered reports of people walking out with them without paying. After the alarms went off, we hope they were advised about the web offer ;-)
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Comment by old-and-in-the-way: My advanced vintage means that I was a teenager when Abbie Hoffman released "Steal This Book." Of course I shoplifted... more » | Other threads
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advertising
Who paid for your free Wired
The February 2007 issue of Wired contained 67 pages of advertisements. The maker of this document — we hesitate to call it "art" — placed their logos in the exact same positions as they appear in the magazine. Get your signed copy for €50.
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free!
Get Wired for free — thanks, Mr. Anderson!
Being editor-in-chief of a major magazine must do wonders for your book sales. (Or not.) Wired head honcho Chris Anderson published a 4,703-word excerpt touting his new book and how "free" is the future. Want to read it for yourself? Grab Nick Douglas's 100-word version, read the full article on Wired.com, or get your very own dead-tree edition of Wired — free!
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100 word version
The "Long Tail" Guy's New Book, Free And Half A Year Early
"Free!", the upcoming book from Chris Anderson, explores the exciting new business concept of freebies. Okay, Wired's editor-in-chief isn't pretending he discovered loss leaders, ad-subsidized media and such; he's just the first to sell a book about it (coming this summer, though of course there will be a Free! version). For Anderson, the book means a Free! feature article in Wired, released today. It's 4,703 words! Here's the 100-word version, in Anderson's own (edited) words. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by belltolls: @IndianSlipper: Cracking open a PBR and microwaving a Vienna Red Hot which I will then place in a pot of... more » | Other threads
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chris anderson
Wired's Geeky EIC Isn't Geeky Enough
Much as I'd like to see Anna Wintour in a polo, fleece vest and baseball cap, Chris Anderson is unique among Condé Nast's editors-in-chief in being openly geeky. For a segment on Wired's PBS science show, Anderson flew aircraft drones with hobbyists, and wrote and narrated the segment himself (it's embedded below). Though it looks like he really enjoyed himself, it also feels like he's telling Wired's core nerd audience, "We're still keeping it real!" But they aren't! Update: Chris points out that he is indeed a hardcore geek who runs a whole forum about DIY drones. Wired still not geeky. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by CaptainFantastic: I was an intern on a UAV program for McDonnell-Douglas back in '91. I performed small CAD tasks on a... more » | Other threads
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wired
Upcoming Wired to feature Chris Anderson's new book
"My book will be previewed as the cover story in Wired this month. Out in about ten days. Link then. I think you'll like it ;-)" authorGregChris Anderson writes on his blog, The Long Tail. Getting Wired to promote your new book with a cover story is pretty impressive. But don't be jealous. Rumor has it Anderson lets Wired's editor-in-chief have his way with him whenever. In the shower. In bed. Everything.
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Comment by Paul Boutin: Free is the title. It's not due until June 2009, according to the publicist at Hyperion. No word... more » | Other threads
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julia allison
Is Allison next on Wired's geek-covergirl list?
Nerd-lusting Star editor-at-large Julia Allison is all grown up. She's on the cover of a magazine! Sure, as a commenter on some other blog noted that "Time Out notches just below Delta's Sky magazine and just above the vaunted Baugher Family Christmas Newsletter," but we all must start somewhere. In a recent poll, 65 percent of you recently voted for Julia as the girl who makes your geek go wild. If Sarah Silverman and Jenna Fischer can make the cover of Wired, why not Allison? Take a memo, Greg Anderson. -
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Wired editor founds wonkiest website ever
Chris Anderson's BookTour is one of those why-didn't-I-think-of-that sites. It scratches a specific itch to bring together touring book authors and the people who go to see them. Bespectacled novelist groupies are spared from the non-bookish mob at Upcoming — and vice versa. A billion-dollar idea? Of course not. But a required, um, bookmark among the New York literati by March? Yeah, I'll bet a buck on that. A side note from BookTour's About page: San Franciscans spend more per capita than residents of any other American city on books and wine.
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By Paul BoutinComment by clarked: How come gawker is still asleep? Or is this strictly a Paul Boutin posting on Christmas kind of thing? more » | Other threads
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holiday cheer
5 people who deserve a Christmas bonus
You know that old story about how the English and German soldiers sang carols to each other from the trenches on Christmas Eve? Then the next day they went back to killing each other? The Valleywag staff dipped into the eggnog and got all feel-nicey about five people we've picked on all year. Each of them, we decided weepily, taught us something about humanity. And that was before the drinking started. Quick, read it before we wake up with a hell-hangover and delete the whole thing. More » -
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China trip nets Wired editor a $2,100 iPhone bill
Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson left his iPhone on during a recent trip to China. Because the device automatically checks for new email every 10 minutes, Anderson rang up more than $2,000 in data charges. AT&T eventually contacted Anderson in China to warn him about his bill. They offered to switch him to a $300-a-month plan. Anderson told MSNBC.com he agreed to the switch, but hasn't heard back from AT&T since. They way we see it, his only remaining option is to pull a Kevin Rose.
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facebook
Remind me again why I'm on Facebook
I thought it would be cool to friend Wired editor Chris Anderson on Facebook, considering the number of love-bites we've given him lately. But if G. Christopher Anderson from Wired has an account, it's buried in the long tail of 500-plus loose matches. Great. Facebook won't let me search for "Chris Anderson Wired." It won't let me join the work group for Wired or the Times or any other pub I write for, because I don't have an email address at their domains. Has Facebook heard of freelancing? One of the costs it cuts is the IT overheard of maintaining email addresses for hundreds of part-time contributors. But hey, Facebook will let T-shirt sites be my friend. If anyone wants to make some professional contact and get some real work done, I'll be over at LinkedIn.
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By Paul BoutinComment by WillClark: The point is that you are examining social networking sites from the perspective of someone who doesn't get the point.... more » | Other threads
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wired
Why Chris Anderson traded in his name
Chris Anderson, the editor-in-chief of Wired, was not always Chris Anderson. As journalist John Kelly recounts, he once hired a questionably talented fellow named Greg Anderson to play bass for his New Wave band, The Item. (Kelly owned a bass but didn't know how to play.) Anderson didn't dig The Item's Partridge Family pop-punk appeal. He quit for the bleached-hair friendliness of Egoslavia. The only problem? For Anderson to jam with the cool kids, he had to change his name, since Egoslavia already had a lead singer named Greg. (Egoslavia, for that matter, was originally called R.E.M., but that's another story.) We're not sure Anderson's name change was that wise an idea. As Chris, he now risks confusion with the Chris Anderson who runs the Ted conference, not to mention two Australian Chris Andersons — the rugby player and a telecom executive. Next time, Chris, pick a first name further down the long tail.
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Comment by Whocares: Could be worse.. you could be named Julia Allison.. imagine a potential employer googling you.. goodbye career. more » | Other threads
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chris anderson
Wired editor gives free PR to 329 undeserving flacks
As we noted earlier this week, Wired editor Chris Anderson published 329 email addresses that he had blocked in the past 30 days; most were PR firms sending unsolicited pitches. Anderson stated (and several PR and media professionals corroborated) that it's foolish and counterproductive to send pitches to a magazine's editor-chief rather than a more specific writer or editor, especially since Wired publishes staff writers' addresses. More »
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great moments in public relations
Chris Anderson hates receiving spam, benefits from sending it
Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson has had it up to here with unsolicited emails from PR agencies. But he's the beneficiary when colleagues use the tactic. Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter notes that his inbox is filled with unsolicited emails from Wired flacks. Sent to an email address, Schachter points out, which is on his blog, not one he uses to sign up for mailing lists. Call it the Long Tail of PR. Whether or not Anderson approves, he certainly gains from the PR mail-all list: The most recent Wired message touts Wednesday's edition of the PBS show Wired Science, and the subject line highlights a special appearance by Anderson himself. -
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Wired editor in a snit over unsolicited emails
Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson has had enough of unsolicited emails from PR professionals. So much so, that he posted a list on his blog of 329 PR Hester Prynnes, guilty of promiscuous overuse of their email outboxes. No more will their very unimportant missives waste his time — emails from these people will be summarily blocked. Among the guilty: Flacks from SparkPR, Edelman, Ogilvy, Weber Shandwick, SutherlandGold, Bite PR, and Text100. If you're wondering, Outcast, Hill & Knowlton, and Burson-Marsteller managed to escape Anderson's long flail. Prepare for lots of stories about Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, and Hillary Clinton in the next few issues of Wired.
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Comment by Jeremy: @Gina Trapani, Lifehacker Editor: Geez, it's hard to get a hold of you, isn't it? ;) more » | Other threads
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videogames
Wired editor says Wired is wrong
I recently wrote that videogame developers can't follow in the footsteps of Radiohead and give away their wares for free. Wired editor Chris Anderson — known around Valleywag for his theory of the"Long Fail""Long Tail" — disagrees. He disagrees with Valleywag — and with Wired. Anderson's "free games" manifesto, in which he argues for in-game advertising, virtual item sales, and shareware business models, has one severe flaw: he's talking about the games no one wants to play. In fact, he didn't name any titles, which makes me wonder if he ever plays. Mr. Anderson, I'll be glad to return to this debate if we agree to discuss games that are actually, you know, fun.
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Comment by LennyShimizu: I dunno what I think about the whole free video game debate, but Chris Anderson probably does play. The lucky... more » | Other threads
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chris anderson
A drone debate leaves Wired's editor unmanned
Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail, blogger, and editor-in-chief of Wired, has a hobby that has confronted him with a dilemma. Anderson builds unmanned aerial vehicles — also known as UAVs or "drones" — and runs a UAV social network on Ning called DIYDrones.com. On that site, he shares his expertise in open-source fashion. Recently, Amir Aalipour, a resident of Tehran, proudly posted photos of his UAV sporting the Iranian flag that he built by following sources like DIYDrones.com. This alarmed and frightened the Wired editor. His knee-jerk reaction was not to seal up the windows with duct tape because a cloud of radioactive dust is going to descend from the jihadist's radio-controlled airplane and kill us all. No, Anderson's knee-jerk reaction was, instead, to worry that others would have that knee-jerk reaction, and put his hobby out of business. More »
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By Tim FaulknerComment by MATIC: A real gossip rag would've ran this with the headline: WIRED HONCHO AIDS ENEMY or some similar red-scare 2007 hed.... more » | Other threads
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vacations
Wired's editor has a most analog holiday
A specter is haunting Chris Anderson — the specter of leisure. On his blog, Wired's editor complains of having suffered countless indignities on his most recent family vacation to England and France. Catching Lyme disease right before he left was bad luck, of course. The freak rainy season? Blame it on climate change, which Anderson's magazine has at least been trying to address. But everything else? Anderson's fault. Here's why. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Blackjack: It's not a long tail, it's a shared toothbrush. Some people get the minty bristles, while everyone else gets to... more » | Other threads
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silicon valley users guide
SVUG #12: What blogs should I pretend to read?
PAUL BOUTIN — Skip the year-end recaps and next week's inevitable Predictions for 2007. Instead, bone up on these four tech/biz insiders whose blogs you don't read, but should say you do. All four are way more successful than you. Each posts faster than you can read. SVUG's party trick: Read 'em today, then trust they'll keep blogging the same topics through March. More »
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