Chris Anderson is the Editor in Cheif of WIRED magazine and author of The Long Tail and FREE: The Future of Radical Price. The Long Tail concept has found broad ground for application, research and emperimentation. Now, in FREE, he makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them.
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Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson is editor in chief of WIRED magazine, a position he's held since 2001. During his tenure, the magazine has received eight National Magazine Awards and seven additional nominations. It won the prestigious top prize for general excellence in 2005, 2007, and 2009. In 2009, Adweek honored WIRED as its Magazine of the Decade.
Anderson is the author of two New York Times best sellers, The Long Tail and Free: The Future of a Radical Price. He is also one of the founders of Booktour.com, a free online service that connects authors on tour with potential audiences. In 2007, he was named to the Time 100, the news magazine's annual list of the most influential people in the world. Before joining WIRED, Anderson served as U.S. business editor, Asia business editor, and technology editor at The Economist. He began his media career as an editor at the two premier science journals, Nature and Science.
Kai Ryssdal
Kai Ryssdal is the host of Marketplace, a business program that airs weekdays on U.S. public radio stations. Marketplace is produced and distributed by American Public Media. He took over in August 2005, replacing David Brown. Before hosting Marketplace, he was host of the Marketplace Morning Report, a 10-minute business roundup.
As hungry and maybe angry or disillusioned or "politically" or "financially motivated" or whatever... I see this not all the truth... "leaks" manipulate and are limited. Not honorable in their interest and or intention. These obscure news sources - not even the big established will outright attack one another unless through comedy. Needless to say all they want to advertise their own "product". I do not believe all I read or hear.
The truth within this leak must be seen as partial... but whose is to say what is true and what is not. Unfortunate? You betcha! Pilamaya
When you rely on "leaks" to find out the truth, then you realize the traditional news sources are falling down on the job. I get my news up to the minute online; newspapers are a waste of trees and the "personal interest" stories are usually paid advertisements.
True there is a lot of crap on youtube. But as Chris hinted thats subjective isn't it? Secondly, a lot of those arguments come from an older mindset of centralized controlled entertainment. The arrogant assumption that a few in control of media understand best what the audience should or wants to see. So yes you will find junk on youtube, but you'll also find gems and unique ideas that you would never get to enjoy or discover in the days prior the internet.
Jon Lajoie is a You Tube success story. Low budget, but funny and talented. His career is just now taking off. Yeah, there's a lot of garbage out there.
I was very surprised to hear Chris Anderson defending Wikipedia as a credible source until I came across the following analysis http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/0...anderson-free/ showing that in his book Chris heavily borrowed from Wikipedia himself. He was even accused of plagiarizing.
Invent awesome products, services or content + give it away for free on internet + get the traffic + charge for advertisement + sell the products/services/content = new successful I-business model???