http://www.badlanguage.net/the-long-tail-and-blogging How to communicate Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:31:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.badlanguage.net/the-long-tail-and-blogging#comment-342367 Bad Language / To free or not free, that is the question Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:06:53 +0000 http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=194#comment-342367 [...] My old chum John McGarvey just did an interview with Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief at Wired and author of The Long Tail. (See my old post about The Long Tail and blogging.) [...] [...] My old chum John McGarvey just did an interview with Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief at Wired and author of The Long Tail. (See my old post about The Long Tail and blogging.) [...]

]]> http://www.badlanguage.net/the-long-tail-and-blogging#comment-17074 Bad Language / Web 2.0 week - Tim O’Reilly ‘interview’ Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:56:54 +0000 http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=194#comment-17074 [...] Another front in the data wars is around online file sharing. While the music and movie industries are gradually seeking accomodation with purveyors of file sharing technology, and I believe that there will ultimately be a rich marketplace of paid content, there’s no question but that the ease of digital copying challenges the business models of content industries based on scarcity. Instead, there is a new calculus in which the benefits of viral distribution compete in the bookkeeper’s mind with the value of restricted access. In 2002, I wrote an essay entitled “Piracy is Progressive Taxation,” in which I argued that for most creative works, obscurity is a greater danger than piracy, and if piracy brings greater visibility to what Chris Anderson later called the Long Tail [See the Bad Language post on The Long Tail], it will be worth some dimunition in the revenues accruing to the top artists. And as Chris has so compellingly argued, the benefits of unlimited access to obscure long tail content has driven the success of new media giants, from Netflix and Amazon to Google. [...] [...] Another front in the data wars is around online file sharing. While the music and movie industries are gradually seeking accomodation with purveyors of file sharing technology, and I believe that there will ultimately be a rich marketplace of paid content, there’s no question but that the ease of digital copying challenges the business models of content industries based on scarcity. Instead, there is a new calculus in which the benefits of viral distribution compete in the bookkeeper’s mind with the value of restricted access. In 2002, I wrote an essay entitled “Piracy is Progressive Taxation,” in which I argued that for most creative works, obscurity is a greater danger than piracy, and if piracy brings greater visibility to what Chris Anderson later called the Long Tail [See the Bad Language post on The Long Tail], it will be worth some dimunition in the revenues accruing to the top artists. And as Chris has so compellingly argued, the benefits of unlimited access to obscure long tail content has driven the success of new media giants, from Netflix and Amazon to Google. [...]

]]> http://www.badlanguage.net/the-long-tail-and-blogging#comment-737 Bad Language / Who are all these bloggers anyway? And who reads them? Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:19:21 +0000 http://www.badlanguage.net/?p=194#comment-737 [...] There is long tail of blogs and they’re not like the top 100 blogs many of us read so avidly. In fact most of them are about cats. (I made that bit up but it could be true.) [...] [...] There is long tail of blogs and they’re not like the top 100 blogs many of us read so avidly. In fact most of them are about cats. (I made that bit up but it could be true.) [...]

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