Muffin Research Labs (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
(SVG Long Tail Diagram by Hay Kranen via Wikipedia) BitTorrent is a highly useful technology that helps to share the burden of many people getting access to content available from the internet by distributing the load via a P2P network. The big problem with bittorrent is that it’s not great at providing access the Long Tail [...]
CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Yes, folks, it's yet another Long Tail entry from the latest round of NBCC Reads . This time, we've got a twofer from Brooke Allen , a widely published critic and the author of Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers . She chose the following two titles as a partial skeleton key to American political life: Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government...
Make the logo bigger. (Free subscription) | yesterday
... What matters most here: A traditional big buzz up front or slow and steady on the internetz? Tags: Long Tail , Chris Anderson
broadstuff (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Planet Video will drop the same balls today? As to how useful it is - I use the "Roderick Falconer Long Tail Test", which Amazon passes with flying colours*. To explain - Roderick Falconer is a little known today (micro-cult') late Glam/early new wave 70's musician who had a brief bit of fame in my Uni days (alt.disco.thank_god). If a system is mining the long tail as far as him,...
CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Now that we've all emerged from a tryptophan-induced stupor, it's time to resume the Long Tail entries from the latest round of NBCC Reads . This time around, we've got suggestions from Alex Ross , who won the NBCC Award for The Rest Is Noise , and Roxana Robinson , the author most recently of Cost , as well as Georgia O'Keefe: A Life . Alex Ross: This summer I re-read most of Joan Didion's...
Evil Avatar Forums - News Items (Free subscription) | yesterday
David Gardner, CEO of Atari spoke yesterday at an event in London saying that used game sales are 'extremely painful' for the industry, but instead of clamoring for draconian methods of combat, suggests that games should offer more online features (extra content or social aspects) to help grow the value of games and give them a longer tail. Gamesindustry.biz : Quote: Speaking at the Atari...
New Music Strategies (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... environment, the implication seems to be that the British public are in for a bit of hunt down the Long Tail for interesting and affordable Christmas gift ideas. Just a shame you can’t giftwrap an mp3 . ______________________________ A Long Tail British Christmas
Ionian Enchantment (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Tim Farley, creator of What's The Harm? and author of the blog Skeptical Software Tools , has an interesting post entitled " The Long Tail of Skeptical Wesbites ". He argues, among other things, that skeptics should focus less on general websites covering many topics and start creating one-topic websites that will rank highly in Google. In other words, we need fewer blogs (like this one...)...
artdiamondblog.com (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
I've discussed in a previous entry, why The Long Tail is a worthy read. The article quoted below, praises a Harvard Business Review article that disagrees. I haven't had a chance to read the HBR article yet. Yet on...
TechChuck (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... starts a self-reinforcing cycle. Initial studies have suggested that there isn't a Googlearchy—a "long tail" of less-popular sites appears in search results—but a draft of a new study indicates the same may not hold true on social sharing sites like Digg and YouTube. The study, which currently exists in draft form at the arXiv, was performed by two members of HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard's...
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
While fears that a few popular sites might wind up dominating the web appear to be unfounded, a new study appears to suggest that social sites like Digg and YouTube may help initially popular stories dominate. Read More...
The Doc Searls Weblog (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
After Murad Ahmed wrote Citizen journalists told to stop using Twitter to update on Bombay attacks in TimesOnline, and David Stephenson blogged a similar concern, Bruce Schneier responded with Communications During Terrorist Attacks are Not Bad. Specifically, This fear is exactly backwards. During a terrorist attack — during any crisis situation, actually — the one thing [...]
erniesblog (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Never mind the long tail. What's your long pole?The dad of one of Jackson's fellow Cub Scouts recently emailed about his son's progress toward the Wolf badge, singling out the requirement to make a chart of household duties, and keep...
Wireless and Mobile News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Music discovery service Shazam, has increased its music database from six to eight million tracks. Shazam users are now able to access a broader range of music. The claim they have the largest collection of the most important long tail...
ideonexus (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
How the ISS compares to Science Fiction starships. ISS Size Comparisons Credit: Gizmodo An inadvertent finding of a study on seniors found that those who spend 14 hours or more a week caring for their sick or dying spouse lived longer. The sperm with the longest tail isn’t necessarily the fastest. America’s weather satellites are in an alarming state of [...]
