open... (Free subscription) | yesterday
As Chris Anderson notes , whatever the other one does, the *gift* economy should do well in these difficult times: # Gift economy: This is driven primarily by people's "spare cycles" (AKA cognitive surplus) and rising unemployment means more spare cycles, sadly. Obviously people still need to pay the rent, so many of these shared contributions are really just advertisements for the contributor's skills....
business|bytes|genes|molecules (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
One more post today. Russ Altman talks about how the cost of genotyping is asymptoting to free (eerie parallels to Chris Anderson’s Free). The post comes on the heels of the launch of Complete Genomics and that they will enable a $5000 genome in 2010. But that’s not the part that I [...] ShareThis
Somewhat Frank (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
What does the future hold? I am not a psychic but I recently attended the opening preview of the WIRED NextFest in Chicago as it looks to enable visitors to experience the future. It was a great event kicked off by a breakfast keynote by WIRED Editor in Chief, Chris Anderson.The event focused on innovations as exhibitors from across the country were on hand showing off their products. Check out the...
IF! (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
On his Long Tail blog, Chris Anderson brings our attention to an interesting subset from the recently released Forbes 400 list: the members of the Billionaires Club that have earned their spot through offering services… Continue reading
Hack A Day (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
We wrote about [Chris Anderson] before when he released the Arduino based autopilot. He has since crashed his first Predator UAV, due to an underpowered motor and poor control of the v-tail only steering. He has since released a pro version of the autopilot controller, and is modifying this UAV Predator drone kit to work [...]
Servant of Chaos (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
We owe a lot to Chris Anderson. Not only did his Long Tail give us a way to conceptualise the business models around aggregated, niche, online markets, he continues to challenge the way that we think about business in an...
Futurelab (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
by: David Armano This is an updated to my original post since Chris Anderson added a "4th Free" .
Stowe Boyd's (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
After a detailed recapitulation of the principles underlying Web 2.0, Surowiecki's Wisdom Of Crowds, Chris Anderson's Long Tail, the promise of social media, Timo Hanney concludes that the world of science has not yet been infiltrated by these revolutionary tools:...
SXSW Interactive News (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
On Tuesday, March 17, Wired's Chris Anderson will be part of a keynote interview to talk about his new book "Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price." Want to be at SXSW to see this interview? Better yet, want to be at SXSW to see this interview for FREE? If so, then subscribe to the SXSW Interactive Festival monthly listserve. Subscribing to this newsletter allows you to to keep up-to-date on...
Matt Dentler's Blog (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Blogger Chris Thilk contributes a post to Spout, asking the question "When everything is available how do you decide what to watch?" In a lot of ways, it does go back to Chris Anderson's Long Tail conclusion that there's an audience out there for almost anything, you just have to determine the best way to connect the content to that...
The Technology Liberation Front (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Walking around campus has given me plenty of time to listen to podcasts lately, and I wanted to recommend the best of what I’ve listened to over the last couple of weeks: Russell Roberts and Chris Anderson: I just recently started listening to Russ Roberts’s excellent podcast, EconTalk, and so I’ve been catching up on old [...]
New Love Lines (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Wired kicked off NextFest press day this morning with a talk by the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Chris Anderson. The Long Tail author used his allotted 45 minutes to discuss his forthcoming sophomore book, Free, which, according to the author, is due out on Hyperion next spring–or summer, depending on whether he hits his deadline. “You are, in [...]
WAFB - Local News (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
For the first time in 16 years, voters in Gonzales will elect a new police chief. Two democrats, Chris Anderson and Sherman Jackson, are vying for the job being vacated by four-term chief Bill Landry.
Miguel de Icaza (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Chris Anderson is wearing a Mono T-Shirt on this PDC interview and IronRuby.com is hosted on DekiWiki, a Mono-powered Wiki site. This is clearly awesome. In other news, the awesome hackers at Imendio have officially released Gtk+ for OSX packages .
SXSW Interactive News (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
The SXSW Interactive Festival is very excited to announce that Chris Anderson , editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine and author of the best-selling book "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More," will be part of the Keynote Interview on Tuesday afternoon, March 17. Anderson's new book covers the growing importance of pricing models that provide no-cost content, products and...
