Godin and Anderson on Gladwell on Anderson on ‘Free’
Unsurprisingly, Malcolm Gladwell’s take on Chris Anderson’s ‘Free’ didn’t go unnoticed. First, Anderson tapped out an angry rebuttal, ‘Dear Malcolm: Why So Threatened?’, over at The Long Tail:
But since journalist Malcolm Gladwell has somewhat parochially decided to make the Future of Paid Journalism the focus of his review of Free (which is, ironically, free on the New Yorker’s website; perhaps this is something Gladwell should take up with David Remnick?), I’ll try to respond in a bit more detail…
Now, Seth Godin’s chimed in with ‘Malcolm is Wrong’:
I’ve never written those three words before, but he’s never disagreed with Chris Anderson before, so there you go…
All we need now is Gladwell to slap Nick Carr through the ropes and we’ll have a good old fashioned tag team wrestle.
