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It's sometimes odd to reflect that I have been planning events since way back in high school. It's quite a rollercoaster of a job, but somehow there's something magic in what can happen when you add structure to people interacting with each other. I think I am addicted to whatever that thing is. I have often described myself as a crazy social scientist who loves to experiment with human behavior. Tweaking social alchemy is a thing I'm good at. In high school, I was the commissioner of activies and the homecoming committee chairman and the graduation ceremony organizer. What a lot of thankless work, but I fell in love with social alchemy even then. In college I organized a group fundraising event system for people (like me) who needed financial help to go and work 3 month internships in Washington DC. In Geneva, my 4 housemates and I threw great theme parties - Mexican Fiestas and champagne only formal holiday fetes. By the time I returned to DC to attend grad school, I ...

RE: Chris Anderson Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine ; Author, The Long Tail (2006), Free (anticipated 2009) Chris Anderson is at the top of the google trends today. While I haven't a clue why googlers are looking him up today , I do know that he is one of our era's most articulate and influential voices at the center of the new economy. He has written important and exciting new books that put forth an entirely new economic model for business - one that is built on an economics of abundance rather than scarcity. In The Long Tail , Anderson proposes that the future of business is selling less (volume) of more (variety). Niche is everything, and everything is niche. As the cost of reaching consumers drops, markets are shifting from a one-size-fits-all model of mass appeal to one of unlimited variety for unique tastes. It should come as no surprise that Anderson believes it's the internet which makes the Long Tail of niche markets not only possible, but inevitable. The Long ...