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I can't believe Chris Anderson is still pimping "The Long Tail." (His latest book: "The Longer Tail.") As his website mentions, his initial "The Long Tail" Wire
by sutro 18y ago
I can't believe Chris Anderson is still pimping "The Long Tail." (His latest book: "The Longer Tail.") As his website mentions, his initial "The Long Tail" Wired article came out in 2004. OK, we get the concept. Please come up with some new material. Perhaps the fact that he still has an audience for "The Long Tail" books and speaking engagements proves his theory that the long tail does exist.
- j2d2 18y agoRich Long Tail, Poor Long Tail
- jraines 18y agoIf tomorrow you come up with a catchy term for a concept that captures the imagination of the business media market and then write a bestseller around that concept -- I guarantee you will still be "pimping" it 4 years from now.
- tx 18y agoEven though the "concept" is a matter of common sense understandable by any 3rd grader... These "business types" surely know how to blow an average paragraph of text into an article, then into a book, then into a site... It's almost like the dude discovered that circles are "more round than squares" and makes a career out of it.
- nickb 18y agoLong Tail = Rebranded, trademarked brand of Zipf's Law