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Had a nice interview with Jon Zemke, the News Editor at MetroMode yesterday. Here is the result.

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Chris Anderson (Editor, Wired):There *is* such a thing as a free lunch!

David Bloom recently pointed me to Chris Anderson's latest project, a yet-to-be-published book tentatively titled FREE. Chris wrote an article on the subject for Wired, then ran an offer to give away the magazine for free (it's no longer available, sorry). I really enjoyed this interview that he did with Charlie Rose (Michael Arrington from TechCrunch was also on this episode, so that's why his picture is below).

As you might guess, nothing is really free; but Chris makes that point that we have shifted to what he calls the "attention economy". Attention is very, very valuable, and that is what consumers "pay" for the services that they use on the internet. The challenge, of course, is monetizing that attention...