Late last month, Chris Anderson released a free downloadable unabridged podcast/audiobook version of his book, Free: The Future of a Radical New Price as zipped mp3 files, and via  iTunes.  It chapter is an individual podcast; all of which are  narrated by Chris.

Thanks, Chris :)

Hugh MacLeod today posted an interesting interview with Chris; several key takeaways for me were:

• I’d like to be equally know for innovations in business models.
• Don’t wait to be given a job to do something cool. Follow your passions, create something every day, take chances and try to be the best in the world at something, no matter how tiny and trivial.  Nothing impresses me more than initiative. And there has never been a better time to take it.
• I think that leading people is perhaps the most important skill these days.  My business card says “Editor in Chief”. I suspect that if any of my children follow in my footsteps, their card will say “Community Manager”. Helping (and inspiring) other people to do cool stuff is what an editor does, and when you take it out of a purely professional media context that looks more and more like effective community management.  It’s a great skill and I admire those who do it well.

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