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A review of Free: The Future Of A Radical Price by Chris Anderson. Chris Anderson is Editor-in-Chief of the US edition of Wired magazine, a post he has held since 2001, and is also author of 2006 best-seller The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand. His latest foray into the lucrative non-fiction [...]

Very interesting in-depth interview with Eric Schmidt by Danny Sullivan.

Is this man gloating too much about the death of print or simply too quick to announce the end of industrial capitalism? Useful interview. Shame about the lousy video player interface design (it’s ten minutes long and no, you can’t control the playhead).

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] In a radio interview broadcast last week, debut novelist Natasha Solomons discusses the best way for authors to promote their books with publishing consultant Damian Horner. She makes effective use of online social media to promote her work with a stylish blog, an active twitter habit and a [...]

Very entertaining video of a speech by veteran tech journalist and broadcaster Leo Laporte, creator of This Week in Tech and its podcast network, to the Online News Association focussed on business models for new media companies. Synopsis: they need to be targeted at precisely-defined and highly-engaged niche audiences rather than large, loosely-determined, often indifferent [...]