Wired Editor Chris Anderson discusses the Long Tail. From the video notes: “Everything is measurable now,” said Anderson, comparing charts of sales over time of a hit music album with a niche album. The hit declined steeply, the niche album kept its legs. The “long tail” of innumerable tiny-sellers is populated by old hits as well as new and old niche items. That’s the time dimension. For the first time in history, archives have a business model. Old stuff is…
This could be the beginning of the end for primary source news. Actually Reuters experimented by moving many editorial positions to India a couple years ago. In this case, for CBS to basically give up and consider hiring CNN to do the work means yet another hard blow to the news industry. I’ve got more coming up tomorrow on this issue (at least tangentally) but for now, I’ll just say this: when we remove the primary sources of news, we…
Mukund Mohan had a great post hitting on the comment by Jason Calacanis: “An absolute idiot with 10-20M users can make a ton of money. So, get to tens of millions of users and forget about money.” Mukund points out that while Linked In has the 10 million users Jason mentions, but it provides very little value to most of the members. I’d even go one further in saying that many of us see it as a total drag. I…
Tom Willmot of EdgeDesigns, one of our team lead developers posts on the launches of www.hotcars.com and www.dreamwheels.com last week. He succinctly sums up the niche social networks for those not familiar: A niche social network is simply a social network aimed squarely at a niche interest, be it wine or geeks. You take the classic social network components: user profiles, friends lists, user messaging, forums and groups; and then you tailor the experience towards your intended niche. Throw in…
I haven’t rowed since my years on the heavyweight eight at St. Johns. Here’s a new sport I can get into…
I wonder what the world would be like today if Martin Luther King had lived. If instead of the legacy of Rodney King and Louis Farrakan, we had embraced our inner angels, rather than change fired in the forges of darkness and sulfur we had change born of light and love. How different would our world be if we had been brought together, rather than rended apart. I wish we had the dream…
Not the best recording, but you get a real feel for the raw edge and energy he brings to his music. I absolutely love it… Dig Deeper: Wikipedia Nilslofgren.com (for budding stringpluckers, he’s got online guitar classes, starting with beginners)
I’ve had a couple sites go live this week – first, some niche websites with NameMedia, Hotcars.com and Dreamwheels.com as well as Cats.com (I didn’t work as much on that one, it was in the hands of the talented Matt Busby and David Rodal). These come on the tails of the launches on March 1 of Biking.com, Cycling.com, Boating.com, Yachting.com and Mommy.com. I was lucky enough to work with Eugene Bernstein, Tom Willmot, Joe Hoyle, Peter Kuhn and Neema Dhakal…
I was cleaning out my digital camera today and found there was a whole collection of videos on it. Thing is, I’ve never shot any digital footage with the camera. So I watch, and as it turns out, I guess we’ve got a budding videographer in our midst. Actually, this is more of a test of video handling in WP 2.5 and frankly, it’s not without issues: File size limits appear to be in affect and I don’t know where…
A very nice step forward for WordPress, but not without it’s issues. Basically I’m liking what I see, but I think it’ll be another release before they really can sort it out and deliver on the real promise. What I like: Finally an integrated photogallery that works. Click my gallery link above. The ability to put a photo gallery in a post. Admin works nicely, and is a whole lot better to work in. Tagging and categories that work. They…