Free: The Future of a Radical Price: The Economics of Abundance and Why Zero Pricing Is Changing the Face of Business
denialism blog (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Chris Anderson's provocative new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price , argues that in the digital world, "free" pricing is a realistic and normatively good approach to pricing information products. Unlike the physical world of "free" products, which is plagued with fraud and tricks, the properties of the digital world make free actually possible when bits are sold. The physical...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
More than ever, media is diverging into blockbusters and niches—with everything else struggling JOE SWANBERG makes films about the romantic lives of young urbanites. He shoots quickly with a digital camera and asks actors to wear their own clothes. His films, which tend to cost between $30,000 and $50,000 to make, are almost never shown in cinemas. Instead they are available on pay-television...
Futurelab (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
We’re starting to experiment with something new at Futurelab which should make Chris Anderson proud. In the past, we have occasionally published reports on the things that were wrong in an industry or situation. But we got frustrated at ourselves because we felt like we were telling the patient that he was ill, yet didn’t provide the medicine. Especially as – because of all our research...
GeekDad (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The GeekDads talk about the Mythbusters at the White House, the Wired Holiday Store, and what we’re doing for Thanksgiving. Enjoy! GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at Wired.com, edited by Ken Denmead, Matt Blum and Chris Anderson. It is a community of like-minded geeky parents writing about our experiences raising our kids in the digital [...]
Stephen Baker - The Numerati (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I'm only catching up now to Steven Pinker's skewering of Malcolm Gladwell in a New York Times book review. (What is it these best-selling authors have against each other? A few months back, Gladwell took Chris Anderson to task.) Pinker criticizes Gladwell for his lack of ...quot;technical grounding....quot; As I read it, I thought, ...quot;Jeez, if only my book had been the mega best-seller I'd dreamed...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Sparkfun is giving away things for free on January 7! You can blame it on Chris Anderson's book Free. After reading his book, I started kicking around the idea of what we can do that's 'free'. Sure, we have free bits (open-source hardware designs, available code, etc.), but we don't have free physical widgets. Now combine that with our love of creating shear havoc (AVC, C&D letter, Portable Rotary...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor
 For those who came of age just before the rise and fall of Napster, what music they listened to depended greatly on where they were from, who their friends were, what their parents listened to, and, above all, it was primarily determined by the "tyranny of geography."1 Such tyranny, Chris Anderson suggests in The Long Tail, made it so fans only had access...
The Music Void (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Perhaps this post will get you to think a bit… Chris Anderson, editor at WIRED magazine, wrote an interesting piece about ‘FREE’ being the new business model online: In his article he discusses a couple of models of how the ‘freebie’ makes economic sense today and it might be useful to highlight a few others you [...]
Mantex ... (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The open source movement began in software development. People hacking code for operating systems and Big Applications started writing the same thing, but for free, and were joined by thousands of others. They were prepared to give their labour without charge to a cause for the common good. That's all rather abstract. In concrete terms it means you can now have everything from operating systems (Linux,...
MIT Advertising Lab (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Sometimes, when you have people listening and nodding their heads in agreement, they may be hearing something very different from what you think you are saying. Chris Anderson's tweeted about the There Is This Company post. Many people who read it see it, as Chris does, as a call to Apple to embrace some flavor of social marketing . After all, it's 30,000-people that doesn't have anyone I could find...
Out of My Gord (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Originally published today, November 19, 2009 in MediaPost's Search Insider. Avinash Kaushik, Google's Analytics Evangelist, will be kicking off the Search Insider Summit in just two weeks. I had the opportunity to chat with Avinash last week about what might be in store. As anyone who has heard him before would agree, it won't be-sugar coated, it will be colorful and it will probably wrench your...
Functional Fun (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I’m having great fun watching the Microsoft PDC 2009 session videos , and blogging the highlights for future reference. In case you want to jump into the video, I’ve included some time-checks in brackets (0:00). Read the rest of the series here . Don Box and Chris Anderson gave a very watchable presentation, Data Programming and Modeling for the Microsoft .NET Developer . This is an overview...
Silicon Valley Watcher (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I popped into the TEDxSF conference yesterday at the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park and really enjoyed the presentations. I've never been to the Big TED conference but I've seen many videos and this was just like it. Conference is probably not the right word to describe TEDxSF it is more like attending a series of theatrical performances. And each TED presentation seems to exist within a...
Dennis Doomen.NET (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
After waking up at 5:00 in the morning for the third night in a row, Tuesday was the first day of the PDC conference itself. As is common for any Microsoft conference, the first keynote is usually a bunch of marketing stuff, and this one was no different. Nevertheless, if you have watched it from the PDC site , you will agree that this whole cloud thing cannot be ignored anymore. I have to make sure...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
BBC A victims' group is setting up a DVD archive featuring the voices of 150 victims and survivors of Northern Ireland's Troubles. Project Capabe aims to record the stories of a cross section of people who suffered in violence. It has been set up by victims' group Fair which is run by William Frazer. 150 victims and survivors will tell their stories Capable - the Conflict Archives Project and Borderlands...
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