Chris Anderson: YouTube Full of Crap! July 27, 2009

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/16/Chris_Anderson_on_FREE_The_Future_of_Radical_Price

Chris Anderson, WIRED editor and author of FREE, explains how the future of TV is going to be decided collectively. Is YouTube full of crap? "The answer is yes, and that's what makes it so great," says Anderson. "But your crap is not my crap."

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Chris Anderson is the Editor in Cheif of WIRED magazine and author of The Long Tail and FREE: The Future of Radical Price. The Long Tail concept has found broad ground for application, research and emperimentation. Now, in FREE, he makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them. - Los Angeles Public Library

Chris Anderson 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 four young children. 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 prestigious journals Nature and Science.

Kai Ryssdal is the host of Marketplace, a business program that airs weekdays on U.S. public radio stations. Marketplace is produced and distributed by American Public Media. He took over in August 2005, replacing David Brown. Before hosting Marketplace, he was host of the Marketplace Morning Report, a 10-minute business roundup.