From Spiegel, a newspaper, and its interview with Wired editor-in-chief and author of the new book Free* Chris Anderson, in which he talks some crazy:

Anderson: Sorry, I don’t use the word media. I don’t use the word news. I don’t think that those words mean anything anymore. They defined publishing in the 20th century. Today, they are a barrier. They are standing in our way, like a horseless carriage.

Your apology is not accepted! Also, where do you live that your way is regularly impeded by horseless carriages? Fucking San Francisco hipsters. I bet those are fixed-gear carriages, too.

Anderson: There are no other words. We’re in one of those strange eras where the words of the last century don’t have meaning.

Okay, Timothy Leary! Is this “strange era” called “book promotion” or “consulting”? I dropped out of Harvard by going to community college.

If Jeff Jarvis and Terrence McKenna had a baby we would still have a 20th-century word for “I want to punch that baby in the beard.” (In fairness, it’s probably German.)

I read lots of articles from mainstream media but I don’t go to mainstream media directly to read it.

Which is why I’ll be republishing the entire content stream of Wired.com here on my own blog.

It’s going to take us a decade or two to figure out what it is we’re doing.

“But in the meantime, buy my book!”

We make millions of dollars in revenues, and we decide whether we want to be profitable or not.

Spoiler: They decide to be profitable.

We’ve tried paying some of our bloggers and they thought it was insulting.

Really, it’s an honor just to be aggregated.

In the past, the media was a full-time job. But maybe the media is going to be a part time job.

Chris, I’m pretty sure Conde will let you go on vacation if you just ask. Maybe you could tell them you’re writing a book?

* I’ll make real money if you buy it on Amazon: Free: The Future of a Radical Price (available for $27 in hardcover; $10 on Kindle) but not if you pay $0 to read it on Scribd.

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