Blog of the Moderate Left (Free subscription) | yesterday
The seas were higher in the Cretaceous period. When last the dinosaurs walked the Earth, the Rocky Mountains were a sea dividing western North America from the east, and the inland sea flowed right into Hudson Bay, dividing the northernmost part of the continent from the rest. North America is hardly unique in having a [...]
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
The seas were higher in the Cretaceous period. When last the dinosaurs walked the Earth, the Rocky Mountains were a sea dividing western North America from the east, and the inland sea flowed right into Hudson Bay, dividing the northernmost part of the continent from the rest. North America is hardly unique in having a different topography, of course — India was located off the southeast coast of Africa...
Gulfstream (Free subscription) | yesterday
http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2008/11/does-the-long-t.html Chris Anderson on the Long Tail: “I’ll end by conceding a point: It’s hard to make money in the Tail.”
livingbrands (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
All of us working in the digital space like the Long Tail theory - it's simple, elegant, makes intuitive sense, and offers a lot of hope that small can be viable, even successful. But is it actually true? British economists...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
JTRipper writes "Monty Python seems to have done the right thing. Instead of issuing take down notices of their videos on YouTube, they are doing it better themselves with their own YouTube channel. They are putting all their clips (including snips from their movies) up in a decent resolution, with the only caveat being a link to buying the movies and TV episodes from Amazon." Read more of this story...
brand new (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
There's been lots of excitement and thinking triggered by Chris Anderson's theory of The Long Tail aka the prevalence of the power law curve. Well, perhaps this isn't as prevalent as we first thought. The first empirical study of digital...
time4time (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
"If the twentieth-century entertainment industry was about hits , the twenty-first will be equally about niches ." — Chris Anderson, The Long Tail BLOG :: The Long Tail :: A public diary on themes around a book
Beyond PR (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Thought-provoking article from Tom Slee in the Register . Is the long-tail a theory that flies in the face of real-world evidence? More on his long tailed debunked blog .
The Register (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Hope is all you need Guest opinion The Long Tail has just had another run-in with large amounts of real-world data, and again come out the worse for wear. Tens of millions of music transactions were analyzed by economists and the shape of the sales distribution shows no resemblance to the Pareto (or Power) Curve, 1/x^n of the Long Tail, but a near perfect fit with a log normal, exp(-x^2) . So can...
Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
The collapse of Sterling is finally hitting Britain's smaller businesses hard. Alex Sullivan at currency broker World First has just told me that his firm has written more business cheques today than for the entire of October. It appears that after weeks of betting on a bounce, firms are now accepting that they have to try to limit their exposure to any further falls in the value of the pound. Talking...
time4time (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
My subway reading food this week is Chris Anderson's wonderful The Long Tail . If you get a chance to read this book, do it... It really helps to understand how the web and the "online word of mouth" changed the world: [This is the world of scarcity. Now, with online distribution and retail, we are entering a world of abundance. And the differences are profound. To see how, meet Robbie Vann-Adibé,...
Invisible Inkling (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Chris Anderson takes notes on the Long Tail at a Sergey Brin talk that turns to participation and scale. It turns out, Brin through no one would show up to populate Wikipedia with articles: “But he was wrong, he says, because he–even he!–had underestimated the way scale can change the game. Sure, the experts say only [...]
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Chris Anderson submits: Over the past few weeks there has been a flurry of reappraisals of the Long Tail, most of which center around the question of whether it creates bigger blockbusters or smaller ones (more concentrated markets or less concentrated ones). My predictions have always been that massive increase in variety plus massive improvements in "filters" (tools to make it easier to find new...
Rajiv's View (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
Web 2.0 Definition Revisited While others have defined Web 2.0 as the 'Wisdom of Crowds','The long tail', social networks, peer collaboration, You Tube and Flickr,etc, here is yet another short clip where it is defined by the newer technologies it incorporates: Ajax, flash, mashups, SOA and web services. Andy Gutmans also describes it as bringing apps from the dektop to the browser. Mashup Camp Silicon...
Eurogamer (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
New business models are finally weaning the industry off transient hits.
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wmfischer | 06/30/2008
Harvard Business Review on The Long Tail Anita Elberse of Harvard Business School has completed a new look at consumer data to write a piece entitled Should You Invest in the Long Tail ? Her article seems to be written as a corrective to some of the hoopla around Chris Anderson’s book, The Long Tail . Her article is worth reading but mainly for the quality of her research. The analysis, however, struck
