Chris Anderson (born 1961) is editor-in-chief of Wired, which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He wrote an article in the magazine entitled The Long Tail , which he expanded upon in the book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006). He currently lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and five young children. He is the chairman of a new startup, BookTour.com
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Biography
Before joining Wired in 2001, he worked at The Economist, where he launched their coverage of the Internet. He also has a degree in physics from George Washington University and did research at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has also worked at the journals Nature and The Scientist.
His newest book, entitled Free, which examines the rise of pricing models which give products and services to customers for free, was released on July 7, 2009, by Hyperion.[1] [2]
Anderson generated controversy for plagiarizing content from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, among other sources, in Free.[3] Anderson responded to the claim on his The Long Tail blog that there were disagreements between him and the publisher over accurate citation of Wikipedia due to the changing nature of its content.[4] Also on his blog, he took full responsibility for the mistakes and noted that the final version of the printed book still contains the plagiarized passages, but the digital editions of Free will be corrected. The notes to the book will also contain corrections.
Regardless of the controversy, the $26.99 hard copy version of Free! debuted as #12 on the New York Times Best Seller List and was also available for $0.00 and downloaded by close to 300K individuals who wanted to read the book on their e-readers - lending credence to the "freemium" model proposed by the book.
In 2007, Mr. Anderson founded GeekDad, the parenting blog of Wired.com. He acted as the editor until handing the title to Ken Denmead.[5] Mr. Anderson now serves as Editor Emeritus of GeekDad.[6]
Works
- Anderson, Chris (2006). The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 1-4013-0237-8.
- Free: The Future of a Radical Price published July 7, 2009 - He recently publicized his next work Free on the popular economics podcast Econtalk.
References
- ^ The Long Tail: My Next Book: "FREE"
- ^ About Me
- ^ Jaquith, Waldo (2009-06-23). "Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism". The Virginia Quarterly Review. http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2009/06/24/the-chris-anderson-plagiarism-controversy/. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
- ^ Anderson, Chris (2009-06-24). "Corrections in the digital editions of Free". The Long Tail. http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/06/corrections-in-the-digital-editions-of-free.html. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
- ^ Dear Malcolm: Why So Threatened?
- ^ GeekDad
External links
- The Long Tail blog, by Chris Anderson
- Biography, from The Long Tail blog.
- Biography, from O'Reilly
- Chris Anderson at BookTour.com
- Podcast With Chris Anderson, on Trust Value in the Long Tail Economy.
- Chris Anderson Long Tail Keynote speech, at Software and Information Industry Association Content Forum in San Francisco. 11-13-2006
- The Time 100. On the Time 100 annual list for 2007.
- Podcast featuring Anderson Anderson discusses The Long Tail on EconTalk.
- Chris Anderson discusses The Long Tail at Long Now Foundation with William Randolph Hearst III, 05/12/2006
- Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price Keynote speech at Nokia World 2007 in Amsterdam on December 5th, 2007.
- A critique of "Why $0.00 is the Future of Business" from a blog post at Teenage Kicks at LA Weekly's Play site on February 26, 2008.
- Chris Anderson on Technology's Long Tail at TED in 2004
- Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism, by Waldo Jaquith on June 23rd, 2009
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