Last year, on FirstMonday, I wrote: “Many bands and artists take advantage of the net by using it to advertise their performances, at which they sell their CDs. This can be very effective and the major record companies are becoming less relevant to artists. However, despite the apparent success of aggregators like iTunes, few independent [...]
It seems a lifetime ago that I was in the music business. Every so often I come across a story about a company that I know reasonably well…. Here is one that was on the Long Tail blog. About Universal and their DRM practices. In this case with Zune. The music industry keeps on whingeing [...]
An excellent blog at Long Tail about the potential for incorporating Radical Transparency into Wired Magazine. And the dilemma that it poses for Wired and for other newspaper and magazine publishers…. Here is a part of it… 4) Privilege the crowd. Why not give comments equal status to the story they're commenting on? Why not [...]
Chris Anderson must be on a bit of a roll…. His Long Tail book has been a huge seller in many languages. And he keeps having great insights… There is one here that I really like about visualizing what is happening in the market. It is about the growing relevance of the microniche and niche…. [...]
This story is about the illicit use of copybot to copy virtual objects in the Second Life virtual world. Please see this cnet report. The relevance of this to recent debates on Long Tail about the economics of abundance is worth considering. It reflects current issues around the disruptive influence of replication tech in the [...]
Chris Anderson has a new meme. Hot on the heels of The Long Tail, he is now talking about the Economics of Abundance. In reality it is pretty much an extension of the Long Tail hypothesis, but as a meme, it may catch on faster and build its own momentum as noted in this comment. [...]
I came across an interesting white paper (written by Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT), Yu “Jeffrey” Hu (Perdue University) and Duncan Simester (MIT)) when browsing Chris Anderson's site (he of Long sTail fame). It is about the changing cost of distribution of long tail products with the increasing utilisation of search. Not just of academic value – [...]
Some very pertinent data points courtesy of Chris Anderson and his Long Tail: TV just had its least watched week in recorded history. Weekly US album sales of music just hit a 4 year low. that is including downloads! DVD sales down 4% Radio audience down (by 4%), and on line music audience up Internet [...]
Here is a piece I was forwarded overnight from a year ago – which only goes to show the value of the Long Tail! It is a really interesting piece questioning why we need broadcasters in the value chain at all when we have BitTorrent as a tool to hyperdistribute content. Well, I can see [...]
I just finished reading The Long Tail, Chris Anderson's book. I have been following Chris's blog throughout the writing and have made a few comments, and offered a few concepts. One seems to have been picked up – the notion of Context is King. It is an excellent book…. People keep talking about content being [...]