Paul Carr

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Paul Carr (born 7th December 1979) is a London-based writer, journalist and commentator. He has also - as Carr writes on his official website - "edited various publications and founded numerous businesses with varying degrees of abysmal failure." [cite web
title=About Paul Carr
url=http://www.bringingnothing.com/about-paul/
publisher=Official Site
date=2008-05-01] .

Bringing Nothing To The Party

Carr's autobiographical book "Bringing Nothing To The Party - True Confessions Of A New Media Whore" was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2008 [cite book
last = Carr
first = Paul
authorlink = Paul Carr
title = Bringing Nothing To The Party
publisher = Weidenfeld & Nicolson
location = London
date = 2008] . It tells the story of "a unique group of hard-partying, high-achieving young entrepreneurs - and [Carr's] attempts to join them, whatever the cost." [cite web
title=Bringing Nothing To The Party
url=http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/PB-43789/Bringing-Nothing-To-The-Party.htm
publisher=Orion Books
date=2008-07-01] . According to one review, the book follows Carr's "journey from gonzo journalist, to accidental business owner, to accidental web business mogul, to very-near-jailbird, to working out what actually makes him happy in life." [cite web
title=Book Review: Bringing Nothing To The Party
url=http://nmk.co.uk/articles/1003
publisher=New Media Knowledge (University of Westminster)
date=2008-08-09]

Carr writes a daily blog, also entitled "Bringing Nothing To The Party" [ [http://www.bringingnothing.com/ Bringing Nothing To The Party] ] on which he writes about new media, popular culture and his travels around the world as a technomad. The site also contains video and audio content. [cite web
title=Author interviews publicist about book
url=http://www.publishingnews.co.uk/pn/pno-news-display.asp?K=e2008072412140366&TAG=&CID=&PGE=&sg9t=.
publisher=Publishing News
date=2008-08-01]

atirical Writing

In 2001, while studying law [cite web
title=That Friday Feeling
url=http://www.thebookseller.com/control/?p=1&msgCode=2
publisher=The Bookseller
date=2006-06-09] at university, Carr co-founded and Edited the award-winning satirical "comment sheet" "The Friday Thing". [cite web
title=That Friday feeling
url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2002/feb/18/mondaymediasection9
publisher=The Guardian
date=2002-02-18] .

In 2002, "The Christian Scientist" described Carr as a "latter day Jonathan Swift" following the publication of his satirical anti-vigilante manifesto "Think of the Children" [cite web
title=Satirical website escapes closure
url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,803132,00.html
publisher=The Guardian
date=2002-10-02] . In the same year, Carr co-founded the London city guide, "London by London" [cite web
title=A site for TV execs and tea ladies
url=http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,2010713,00.html
publisher=The Guardian
date=2007-02-12] .

He has also written for television, most recently for Alison Jackson's "Doubletake" series [cite web
title=The Secret Election
url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/s/secretelectionthe_999050705.shtml
publisher=BBC Online comedy guide
date=2005-05-22] .

New Media Writing

Between 2003-2005 Carr wrote a frequent media column for the "The Guardian" newspaper [cite web
title=The Bloggers Shall Inherit The Gonzo
url=http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,1426595,00.html
publisher=The Guardian
date=2005-02-28] .

Carr has also authored a series of nine web guide books for Prentice Hall [cite web
title=The Very Best Family Web Sites from Zingin.com
url=http://vig.pearsoned.co.uk/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0130329835-VP,00.html
publisher=Pearson Education
date=2001-01-01] as well as co-authoring The Unofficial Guide To Second Life published by Pan Macmillan (UK) and St Martin's Press (US) in 2007 [cite web
title=Pan Macmillan author biography
url=http://www.panmacmillan.com/Authors%20Illustrators/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual%20Contributor&ContributorID=75715&RLE=Author
publisher=Pan Macmillan
date=2007-03-22] .

The Friday Project and Entrepreneurship

In 2005, along with Clare Christian, Carr co-founded The Friday Project [cite web
title=That Friday Feeling
url=http://www.thebookseller.com/control/?p=1&msgCode=2
publisher=The Bookseller
date=2006-06-09] , a book publishing house specialising in finding material on the web and then turning it into traditional books.

Carr left The Friday Project in December 2006 [cite web
title=Paul Carr leaves the Friday Project
url=http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/revolving_door/paul_carr_leaves_the_friday_project_48671.asp] along with Online Editor, Graham Pond, to lead a buy-out of the company's Internet media arm, which lead to the founding of online city site, "Fridaycities.com" [cite web
title=A site for TV execs and tea ladies
url=http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,2010713,00.html
publisher=The Guardian
date=2007-02-12] . Carr left Fridaycities in 2007, when the site rebranded as Kudocities. [cite book
last = Carr
first = Paul
authorlink = Paul Carr
title = Bringing Nothing To The Party
publisher = Weidenfeld & Nicolson
location = London
date = 2008
pages = 271] . He later described himself as "NSFW" (Not Safe For Work). [cite web
title=About Paul Carr
url=http://www.bringingnothing.com/about-paul/
publisher=Official Site
date=2008-05-01] .

External links

* [http://www.bringingnothing.com Paul Carr's Site]
* [http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/PB-43789/Bringing-Nothing-To-The-Party.htm Bringing Nothing To The Party: Publisher's Information]

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