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.".
Carr's biographical book Bringing Nothing To The Party - True Confessions Of A New Media Whore was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2008. It tells the story of "a unique group of hard-partying, high-achieving young entrepreneurs - and attempts to join them, whatever the cost.". 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."
Carr writes a daily blog, also entitled 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.
In 2001, while studying law at university, Carr co-founded and Edited the award-winning satirical "comment sheet" The Friday Thing..
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". In the same year, Carr co-founded the London city guide, London by London.
He has also written for television, most recently for Alison Jackson's Doubletake series.
Between 2003-2005 Carr wrote a frequent media column for the The Guardian newspaper.
Carr has also authored a series of nine web guide books for Prentice Hall as well as co-authoring The Unofficial Guide To Second Life published by Pan Macmillan (UK) and St Martin's Press (US) in 2007.
In 2005, along with Clare Christian, Carr co-founded The Friday Project, 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 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. Carr left Fridaycities in 2007, when the site rebranded as Kudocities.. He later described himself as "NSFW" (Not Safe For Work)..
