Chris Anderson (writer)
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Chris Anderson (born 1961) is editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He coined the phrase The Long Tail in an acclaimed Wired article, 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
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 Science.
On October 29, 2007 Chris posted an article to his blog The Long Tail titled Sorry PR people: you're blocked In this article he listed the email addresses of people who had sent him messages during the month of October and stated that he "was not interested in what they were pitching."
He is currently working on a new book, entitled Free, which examines the rise of pricing models which give products and services to customers for free.[1] The book is set is be released in early 2009.[2]
[edit] 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 - He recently publicized his next work "Free" on the popular economics podcast Econtalk.
[edit] References
[edit] 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.
