http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/chris-andersons-free-anecdote-comes-to-life-calls-chris-anderson-wrong Seriously, this could not be more beta Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:42:29 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/chris-andersons-free-anecdote-comes-to-life-calls-chris-anderson-wrong#comment-13101 Abe Sauer Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:06:26 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=7176#comment-13101 How do you not listen to NPR all day long??!?! It's not like you're in a poopy office of downers who loathe intellectual stimuli and love , right? Seriously, the greatest thing about The Awl is that it's the blog equivalent of listening to NPR all afternoon long (evening NPR is meh). From Mid-Morning to Markeplace, it's 9 hours of just as many kinds of awesome. How do you not listen to NPR all day long??!?! It's not like you're in a poopy office of downers who loathe intellectual stimuli and love , right? Seriously, the greatest thing about The Awl is that it's the blog equivalent of listening to NPR all afternoon long (evening NPR is meh). From Mid-Morning to Markeplace, it's 9 hours of just as many kinds of awesome.

]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/chris-andersons-free-anecdote-comes-to-life-calls-chris-anderson-wrong#comment-13055 Choire Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:02:33 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=7176#comment-13055 Oh wow. I might actually listen to NPR for once for this! Oh wow. I might actually listen to NPR for once for this!

]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/chris-andersons-free-anecdote-comes-to-life-calls-chris-anderson-wrong#comment-13048 El Matardillo Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:08:38 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=7176#comment-13048 I wish I could post an image. Choire knows which one I mean. Free. I wish I could post an image. Choire knows which one I mean. Free.

]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/chris-andersons-free-anecdote-comes-to-life-calls-chris-anderson-wrong#comment-13027 KarenUhOh Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:29:42 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=7176#comment-13027 There is, undeniably and unsurprisingly, both correlation and causation between the book's title and its worth. There is, undeniably and unsurprisingly, both correlation and causation between the book's title and its worth.

]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/chris-andersons-free-anecdote-comes-to-life-calls-chris-anderson-wrong#comment-13016 davidwatts Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:02:18 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=7176#comment-13016 All Chris Anderson wanted to do was write some dumb book that had a dumb little point and support it with a lot of strained, dumb examples, just like everyone else does all the time, but what he did not count on was the fact that telling an industry right in the middle of dying that they were all doing everything wrong, and then COUNTING ON THAT SAME INDUSTRY TO SUPPORT HIM, might not be the best idea. All Chris Anderson wanted to do was write some dumb book that had a dumb little point and support it with a lot of strained, dumb examples, just like everyone else does all the time, but what he did not count on was the fact that telling an industry right in the middle of dying that they were all doing everything wrong, and then COUNTING ON THAT SAME INDUSTRY TO SUPPORT HIM, might not be the best idea.

]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/chris-andersons-free-anecdote-comes-to-life-calls-chris-anderson-wrong#comment-13007 Nicholas Carlson Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:55:25 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=7176#comment-13007 Can't Muller just edit the correct facts back into his Wikipedia entry? Can't Muller just edit the correct facts back into his Wikipedia entry?

]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/chris-andersons-free-anecdote-comes-to-life-calls-chris-anderson-wrong#comment-12991 Abe Sauer Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:20:49 +0000 http://www.theawl.com/?p=7176#comment-12991 In other Chris Anderson retardedtry, he was on Fresh Air this weekend basically on the stump about the book and then it got into advertising and he was very sanctimonious about Wired's wall between ad and editorial, implying the new blogs were all bad about that or soemthing and Gross basically pointed out that he was wrong and didn't newspapers intentionally put ads for, like, movies on the same Arts section pages containing those movies' reviews... Then she asked about the wikipedia thing and he gave his "no format for citing URLs" and she let him go.... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106347439&ft=1&f=13 In other Chris Anderson retardedtry, he was on Fresh Air this weekend basically on the stump about the book and then it got into advertising and he was very sanctimonious about Wired's wall between ad and editorial, implying the new blogs were all bad about that or soemthing and Gross basically pointed out that he was wrong and didn't newspapers intentionally put ads for, like, movies on the same Arts section pages containing those movies' reviews… Then she asked about the wikipedia thing and he gave his "no format for citing URLs" and she let him go….
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106347439&ft=1&f=13

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