3 month ago
deusx : Learning from King and Whedon, and getting out of the ghetto | J.C. Hutchins' 7th Son: OBSIDIAN (Current Shows) - "You’re never just a blogger, or a podcaster, or a YouTube Director. If we mentally adhere to these labels, we willfully paint ourselves into creative corners. If the fumes don’t kill you, the frustration will."
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3 month ago
Linkorama : FriendFeed’s Top 250 Most Followed Users - The sounds of two heads of two long tails talking. And one is only 3'4""
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Excellent HBR piece challenging the Long Tail - It's an excellent article, and although I don't agree with all the conclusions, I'm delighted to see research of this rigor on the topic
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8 month ago
Andy Baio : Kevin Kelly on 1,000 true fans - this model for indie creators is a natural use of the Internet, but still rare
philgyford : Kevin Kelly - The Technium - 1,000 True Fans - The idea that you only need a relatively small number of people willing to pay you occasionally for your work in order to make a living. (Stewart Lee suggested he needed 7,000 fans in 2005.)
deusx : Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - "I don't know the actual true number, but I think a dedicated artist could cultivate 1,000 True Fans, and by their direct support using new technology, make an honest living. I'd love to hear from anyone who might have settled on such a path."
Rod Begbie : Kevin Kelly -- 1,000 True Fans - "Anyone producing works of art needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living." Discussed this over lunch today, and could definitely think of a handful of bands I'd pay $10-a-month to "patronize". [via] #
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Linkorama : Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business - Over the past decade, however, a different sort of free has emerged. The new model is based not on cross-subsidies — the shifting of costs from one product to another — but on the fact that the cost of products themselves is falling fast.
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22 month ago
deusx : ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon » Boutique Generation - "The basic underlying thread is the desire for experience rather than just consumption. Craft over commodity."
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Linkorama : Kawasaki and the Wrong Tale - Open source product companies are at least one exception to this notion that the Long Tail is only for marketing and distribution companies
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Bruno Giussani reviews and considers "The Long Tail" for The Huffington Post - It's an interesting critique that pulls the Long Tail effect back towards a few digitised assets, but which makes the mistake of saying that Chris Anderson only writes about the US when in fact it's just starting in the US like many technology trends...
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27 month ago
jimray : WSJ offers a pretty damning critique of The Long Tail
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30 month ago
deusx : 365 tomorrows - The Whole Night Sky - "Well, we may not have big stars anymore, but now we've got thousands of them, constellations. Now weve got the whole night sky."
Andy Baio : The Whole Night Sky - great 365 Tomorrows entry on the future of music [via]
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32 month ago
deusx : Podcast Riches? - "But I believe the general notion here is that there isn't a huge amount of money to be made just on podcasts and that the disruptive nature of podcasts lie in the fact that most people will be doing them for themselves and their friends and families."
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32 month ago
deusx : Anne 2.0: Why "Do What You Love" Is A Recipe for Web 2.0-Style Disruption - "One thing that must scare the wigs off of media moguls is that many writers and other content creators will work for free, because it's so intrinsically enjoyable."
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34 month ago
Linkorama : The Probabilistic Age - hese systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale.
deusx : The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age - "these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale."
jkottke : Chris Anderson has one of the best descriptions I've read of collective knowledge systems like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs - Chris Anderson has one of the best descriptions I've read of collective knowledge systems like Google, Wikipedia, and blogs: they're probabilistic systems "which sacrifice perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale".
Paul Hammond : The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age - the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale
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36 month ago
Linkorama : Long Tail Camp - Just show up and start talking about the long-tail of whatever.
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37 month ago
Linkorama : Shameless Hitist - But the real surprises are just as likely to come from below, in the noise below the spikes. I can't find Tallinn, Estonia amongst Florida's beautifully mapped peaks, but that didn't stop some smart people there from changing the world not once, but twice
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37 month ago
Linkorama : Business blogging != executive blogging - Maybe I should stop
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38 month ago
Linkorama : The Urban Long Tail - But I've put together a new column for Discover that looks at the long tail question in the context of cities.
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38 month ago
Andy Baio : TechCrunch reviews Pandora - new music recommendation engine for custom streaming radio
deusx : TechCrunch - Dig into the Music Long Tail - Pandora - "What is it? It is a music recommendation engine and player and it is the future of discovering the long tail of music."
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38 month ago
Andy Baio : Chris Anderson on "just enough piracy" - piracy can be useful, and there may be optimal piracy rates for different industries
jkottke : Chris Anderson on "just enough piracy" - Chris Anderson argues that media companies, unable to push the piracy rate to 0%, should live with the benefits of "just enough piracy". I've heard that in the (distant) past, Adobe turned a blind eye to piracy of Photoshop because it was getting their pr
deusx : The Long Tail: "Just enough piracy" - "The lesson is to find a good-enough approach to content protection that is easy, convenient and non-annoying to most people, and then accept that there will be some leakage."
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39 month ago
Andy Baio : Amazon's long tail shorter than previous estimates - the original Wired article said 57%; new research shows closer to 25%
cameron : The Long Tail: A methodology for estimating Amazon's Long Tail sales - The 57% long-tail argument is way off, closer to 20%
jkottke : Amazon's Long Tail getting shorter - Long Tail poster boy Amazon's tail isn't as long as first reported. Oops. (But a good oops...Chris is after the truth here, not just a good story.)
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39 month ago
Linkorama : Who Designed the Bell Curve - Bob: The danger in positing a designer is that it denies us the ability to explore and learn more.
deusx : SATN.org: Who "designed" the Bell Curve? - "The danger in positing a designer is that it denies us the ability to explore and learn more."
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39 month ago
Linkorama : The "long tail" is social - Cultural preferences are social. When people like strange music, unusual fashions, or minority religious practices, they most often do so with a subculture of like-minded folk.
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40 month ago
plasticbag : The Madonna Code - Searching for the perfect music recommendation system (including an awesome one that correlates music with cultural traits) - "Thus, we can see that a high-energy vocal style correlates with the presence of dairy in a society's diet; a high degree of rhythmic blending between vocalists signals a high degree of social solidarity;"
cobra libre : alan lomax's global jukebox - and the savage beast [via] #
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40 month ago
Linkorama : "Pre-filtering" vs. "Post-filtering" - A post-filter buyer would tell others to buy or not
Andy Baio : Chris Anderson compares pre-filters and post-filters - publish it all, let the filters sort it out
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