My story has occasioned a healthy amount of reaction around the web, including from TED and Chris Anderson himself.First, the snark: Maura at The Awl (a commentary site run by ex-Gawkers) calls the story "breathless" and TEDsters ...READ»
The most recent TED gathering, TEDGlobal in Oxford, highlighted the theme of the future of education--and Chris Anderson's own talk hinted at how TED sees itself as a potential part of that future.
Sugata Mitra, of the Hole in the ...READ»
After a "pretty heated discussion" with the man who revealed almost 100,000 classified military documents, the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America says he's concerned about Assange's agenda.READ»
Facebook is ticking off a lot of people with their lack of sincerity regarding our privacy, but are 400 million of us willing to go "cold turkey" and give up our drugs?READ»
In nearly every business sector, you hear people talking about the dreaded “race to the bottom.” It’s the price-pressured, loyalty-free, profit-reducing phenomenon that is disrupting entire industries and wreaking havoc on ...READ»
Chris Anderson points out in his latest book, Free: The Future of Radical Price, we are in an age where internet users can find information for free that was formerly sold for top dollar...READ»
“The ‘Pro-Am’ era [is] a time when professionals and amateurs work side-by-side,” writes Wired Editor, Chris Anderson in his book The Long Tail. “Don’t be surprise if some of the most creative and influential work in the...READ»
This is a list of the top 10 Open Source Strategy and Marketing Books to read in 2010. Some are new, some are old but all have a role in open source strategy around:SegmentationPositioningInbound MarketingCommunity ...READ»
The open source community shares its code and ideas and this blog is designed to open source a playbook on blue ocean marketing and a deliver “Blue Ocean Ten Point Plan”.
I lead marketing for one of the largest ...READ»
Here's one for the annals of experimental marketing: On Wednesday and Thursday a white van carrying a stack of powder-coated Real Good chairs by Blu Dot, a Minneapolis design firm started by three college friends, will patrol ...READ»
The business landscape and the economy as we know it is changing and it is changing fast. What you have is an endless collaborative opportunities, with an abundance of knowledge and free means at your disposal. How can an entrepreneur ...READ»
Wikipedia's ascendancy to the top of a large pool of online reference sites has come to an end, new research shows. But perhaps even more alarming to eleventh-hour term paper writers and lazy journalists everywhere, the user generated ...READ»
Last week, journalist David Rohde escaped after a seven-month kidnap by the Taliban. It's fabulous news, and it's been partly attributed to the fact that The New York Times suppressed it in the first place. But today we learn that ...READ»
The Virginia Quarterly Review took a close look at Wired editor Chris Anderson's upcoming book Free, and discovered that entire passages appear to match entries in Wikipedia verbatim. Says reviewer Waldo Jaquith:
"... ...READ»
After surveying a large number of successful people, Behance found that those who have made things happen share several common principles. Midway through the conference, Scott Belsky, Behance's CEO, took the stage to summarize them: ...READ»
"How would you make money if you owned Twitter?" Venture capitalist and CEO of Alltop Guy Kawasaki asked Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson at the closing keynote of SXSW. "That was one of the questions I was ...READ»
Chris Anderson, author of "The Long Tail," spoke at Pop!Tech about non-monetary economics -- a cheery idea, given the current state of monetary economics.READ»
I attended BlogWorld Expo last year for my company, BlogTalkRadio (I'm VP, Business Development) and enjoyed a number of solid sessions and prime networking.
My focus in terms of what I wanted to learn about from the event, ...READ»
Thanks largely to the deluxe-uccinos at Starbucks and the Michael Graves teapot at Target, it's now an article of faith that luxury is within reach of nearly every man, woman and child. But it also raises an enduring question: When a ...READ»
If the music industry can't figure out how to make a profit, they might as well just give their music away for free. The major labels have done little to innovate the industry. One innovation, however, that just might work (and one ...READ»
Next week, on May 20th and 21st, Mediabistro.com will hold its first conference – Mediabistro Circus.
"Most conferences are dry and boring. That's why we're calling ours a circus," says mediabistro.com founder ...READ»
The Fast Interview: Harlequin's Brent Lewis on how romance novels are being read -- and written -- on cell phones and why size really doesn't matter.READ»
It's no secret that the web is moving to a conversation platform. That's one of the major check boxes for all "Web 2.0" apps online. You can have a 2.0 look (big fonts, clean simple design, and gradient color buttons), but to truly ...READ»
