Comments on: The Long Tail by Chris Anderson http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/07/the-long-tail-by-chris-anderson.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:47:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Bill Kruse http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/07/the-long-tail-by-chris-anderson.html#comment-2588 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:55:12 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/07/the-long-tail-by-chris-anderson.html#comment-2588 I see the long tail as making it finally feasible to make films about ideas rather than entertainment. Movies that ask you to think as opposed to gawp have traditionally had a hard time getting financial backing. The theory seems to be that the slack-jawed yokels who pack out cinemas for Arnie movies won't be queuing to have their brains stretched as opposed to clubbed into submission. Now, though, through the long tail, there's a way of reaching the starving minds of the intelligentsia and hey! - making a profit too, always good. My point? It's going to be a whole lot easier from now on to be making money from making people think - consequently we may by using ideas to foster intelligence realistically be able to increase the IQ of the population overall. Coo! BB I see the long tail as making it finally feasible to make films about ideas rather than entertainment. Movies that ask you to think as opposed to gawp have traditionally had a hard time getting financial backing. The theory seems to be that the slack-jawed yokels who pack out cinemas for Arnie movies won’t be queuing to have their brains stretched as opposed to clubbed into submission. Now, though, through the long tail, there’s a way of reaching the starving minds of the intelligentsia and hey! - making a profit too, always good.
My point? It’s going to be a whole lot easier from now on to be making money from making people think - consequently we may by using ideas to foster intelligence realistically be able to increase the IQ of the population overall. Coo!

BB

]]> by: Ed Howes http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/07/the-long-tail-by-chris-anderson.html#comment-2547 Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:39:05 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/07/the-long-tail-by-chris-anderson.html#comment-2547 This all touches directly upon the recent surge in philanthropy and the asking of meaningful questions by the likes of Bono and Steven Hawking about bringing hope to the hopeless. I saw photovoltaics, laptop computers satellite communications and battery power storage as the key to bring Afghanistan directly into the 21st Century, providing alternatives to warlords and opium. The important thing is to bring millions more under the long tail on a regular and accellerating basis. This would be the best use of billions in philanthropic giving. Until one knows there IS something better, she cannot hope for, desire or pursue it and raises her children to know no more than she. This all touches directly upon the recent surge in philanthropy and the asking of meaningful questions by the likes of Bono and Steven Hawking about bringing hope to the hopeless. I saw photovoltaics, laptop computers satellite communications and battery power storage as the key to bring Afghanistan directly into the 21st Century, providing alternatives to warlords and opium. The important thing is to bring millions more under the long tail on a regular and accellerating basis. This would be the best use of billions in philanthropic giving. Until one knows there IS something better, she cannot hope for, desire or pursue it and raises her children to know no more than she.

]]> by: Lance Winslow http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/07/the-long-tail-by-chris-anderson.html#comment-2376 Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:33:27 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/07/the-long-tail-by-chris-anderson.html#comment-2376 Well said Edward! I too am a fan of the fluidity of information flow that the Internet provides. The Internet is one of the greatest communication tools ever created for the Human Race. I believe this is a very apropos book for any Founder of an Internet Category Killer to read. I will pick up a copy myself, because this is a very good recommendation of a book to read and it provides a glimpse of the direction of information flow. It makes sense to see into the minds of the Google folks to anticipate the Road Ahead, which is another great book to read. I think if someone is serious about the Internet and running a successful business then they need to read all the books of all the Leading Companies that survived the .Com bust and just kept going. There are some great books out their from the founders and Presidents of Ebay, Amazon, Cisco Systems, Oracle, IBM, Intel, AMD, Microsoft, HP, Apple, Dell, etc. and I have learned a lot and found pearls of wisdom in all of them. I just wonder when Chris is going to write another book, this one on EzineArticles.com and its rise to a Super Category Killer, from scratch? I am sure he has not lost his writing touch with all this back-end server database work, which is the backbone to the number one online article submission website in the Solar System. Well said Edward! I too am a fan of the fluidity of information flow that the Internet provides. The Internet is one of the greatest communication tools ever created for the Human Race. I believe this is a very apropos book for any Founder of an Internet Category Killer to read. I will pick up a copy myself, because this is a very good recommendation of a book to read and it provides a glimpse of the direction of information flow.

It makes sense to see into the minds of the Google folks to anticipate the Road Ahead, which is another great book to read. I think if someone is serious about the Internet and running a successful business then they need to read all the books of all the Leading Companies that survived the .Com bust and just kept going.

There are some great books out their from the founders and Presidents of Ebay, Amazon, Cisco Systems, Oracle, IBM, Intel, AMD, Microsoft, HP, Apple, Dell, etc. and I have learned a lot and found pearls of wisdom in all of them.

I just wonder when Chris is going to write another book, this one on EzineArticles.com and its rise to a Super Category Killer, from scratch? I am sure he has not lost his writing touch with all this back-end server database work, which is the backbone to the number one online article submission website in the Solar System.

]]> by: Edward Weiss http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/07/the-long-tail-by-chris-anderson.html#comment-2375 Tue, 04 Jul 2006 02:04:23 +0000 http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2006/07/the-long-tail-by-chris-anderson.html#comment-2375 Or put another way...it's the information age and easy access is what it's all about. Nine times out of ten I'll be able to find the type of information I'm looking for on the net without having to go to the library or buy a book. The internet has made accessing information easy and, for the most part, free! I for one am very grateful to have internet access yet most people (around the world) still don't. This will probably change soon as well. Thank God for the internet. I mean, where else could you find information on pretty much ANY topic in the world? Or put another way…it’s the information age and easy access is what it’s all about. Nine times out of ten I’ll be able to find the type of information I’m looking for on the net without having to go to the library or buy a book. The internet has made accessing information easy and, for the most part, free!

I for one am very grateful to have internet access yet most people (around the world) still don’t. This will probably change soon as well. Thank God for the internet. I mean, where else could you find information on pretty much ANY topic in the world?

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