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  • #layoffs

    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 »
  • #exits

    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 »
  • #journalismism

    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 »
  • #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, 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 »
  • #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 »
  • #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 »
  • #books

    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 »
  • #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 »
  • #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 »
  • #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 »
  • #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 »
  • #free

    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 »
  • #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 »
  • #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 »
  • #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 »
  • #internetfamous

    Julia Allison offers to join Wired marketing department

  • #internetfamous

    Wired rushes Julia Allison cover online — but who's using whom?

  • #thewrongtail

    Harvard Business Review pins The Long Tail on the donkey

  • #google

    Wired editor Chris Anderson's latest book proposal would throw scientific method under a bus

  • #amazoncom

    Jeff Bezos pitches the Kindle, BookSurge to skeptical mob at Book Expo America

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