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24Dec2007 Filed under: All Filed by: Paul

There was a tired blogger called Paul
Whose posting had slowed to a crawl
Turns out writing a book
Is much more work than it looks
But Joyeux Noël to you all

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Welcome to PaulCarr.com, Paul Carr's daily blog about his attempts to become unbelievably rich and famous, using the Internet. And failing in spectacular style.

It is also the companion site to his book, Bringing Nothing To The Party: True Confessions Of A New Media Whore, which is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and is available in all good bookshops right now.

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'Po Bronson rang up / to tell Paul he wants his last / decade's ideas back.' - Belle de Jour

Bringing Nothing To The Party
True Confessions Of A New Media Whore

"Carr is funny enough that you can almost forgive him. Made me want to vomit for all the right reasons." - Mil Millington

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Cast of Characters
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Video Interviews
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Things People Say...

'Utterly endearing. This is completely addictive reading.' - Paperback Choice, The Press Association

'Like a booze, drug and sex-fuelled genius teenager’s diary.' - City AM

'Very funny... I always though the Internet was people making it up as they went along - and it turns out I was right... Unlimited digital thumbs up.' - BBC 6 Music

'The self-deprecating humour and drunken exploits that irritate the very people he needs to keep on side keeps you turning the pages.' - Spectator Business Reads Of 2008

'A truly funny book... it's also a brilliant and hilarious piece of journalism.' - The Courier-Mail (Australia)

'Very entertaining, voyeuristic... witty, honest.' - The Age (Australia)

'Paul Carr is the most irritating and self-satisfyingly smug person I have ever met. Annoyingly, he is also the funniest.' - Zoe Margolis, author of Girl With A One-Track Mind

'Carr is an excellent story-teller... On Amazon, this book is tagged 'liar', 'alcohol', 'sociopath' and 'jail'... It should probably also be tagged 'genius raconteur.' - New Media Knowledge

'The more things that go wrong for Paul, the better a writer he becomes. It's like the grey goo that he feeds off.' - Mike Butcher, Techcrunch UK/Eire

'Nathan Barley meets Alan Partridge... we loved it.' - B3ta.com

'The British Sarah Lacy. If you won't buy MY book, buy this one!' - Sarah Lacy

'You have arseholes for eyes.' - Warren Ellis

'Po Bronson rang up / to tell Paul he wants his last / decade's ideas back.' - Belle de Jour

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What people are saying about me (via Twitter)

hannahvictorius (hannahvictorius) said: @paulcarr KFC is Mexican food?
david_bauer (David Bauer) said: @iA I think @barackobama has earned a place on your map. I'd also add new media whore @paulcarr, mr 7 iphones @stephenfry and Thom Yorke.
mattalder (Matt Alder) said: @paulcarr just read your book and thought it was great, thanks for keeping me amused for the last week or so!
irascian (Ian Smith) said: @mbites @paulcarr Disagree when those who twitter are "publishers". Would u expect every reader of a mag to introduce themselves to editor?
toddunctious (toddunctious) said: @paulcarr iPlayer is available up the road from my house (NI) but not in the Irish Republic (where I live & watch BBC). How mental is that?

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