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Paul Carr is a writer specialising in media and popular culture. Before realising it was easier to write about other people’s success than to have any of his own, he edited various publications and founded numerous businesses with varying degrees of abysmal failure. Bringing Nothing To The Party: True Confessions Of A New Media Whore, the bizarre story of his not-entirely-successful attempt to become a famous Internet billionaire, was published in 2008 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. He also writes a weekly column for the Guardian about his adventures in the technology industry called ‘Not Safe For Work‘. His daily blog can be found at http://www.paulcarr.com.

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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.

Do make yourself at home.

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

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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Free Book Extras...

Download the Prologue
The whole thing, in pdf format.

Cast of Characters
In handy haiku form.

The Gallery
Put faces to the names and events.

Video Interviews
Stars of the book, caught on camera.

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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)

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?
whatkaitedid (Kaite) said: @paulcarr is that like Hollywood Babylon, but within the cutthroat world of the confectionary industry?
asharachal (asharachal) said: @paulcarr whole foods has beer chips. those thing are freaking excellent. and addictive. bloody mary chips are ok. have a nice kick.
CTrouper (CTrouper) said: @paulcarr If it's anything like the Union Square Whole Foods you simply don't require that amount of queuing either.

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