2 posts tagged “anildash”
I haven't read this yet -- but I've been hearing about it and reading references to it for a while. Then this morning, I was reading this really interesting article in Wired, and I get to the end and find it's an excerpt from this. More than enough to lead to an eventual purchase, the next time I'm in a bookstore. (I have too much to read and insufficient disposable income to buy things I'm not ready to read just yet).
[update] so i was cleaning up some bookmarks just now, and found that the Long Tail blog was somewhere I had glanced at, liked enough to bookmark, but never gone back to. Reading it over has me more enticed. At least one tenet of the book seems to be that the capacity of the general public to publish their own content easily (thanks to weblogs, the proliferation of digital cameras, etc) leads to the public not buying mass media as much (the decline of the blockbuster). One underlying thought I've always had about media piracy is this: hey, guys, maybe your music machine isn't a zillion-dollar business anymore. Maybe the fact that you've relentlessly pushed crap on us for years, forced our social perceptions, controlled our access to what used to be our property, and held yourselves up for worship doesn't work for the rest of us anymore, or at least an increasingly bigger part of the rest of us. It's kinda like the umbrella repairman blaming globalization for his woes.
[[update]] the reason i haven't read it yet is because The Long Tail was published today. I found that out through Anil, who in addition to being a 6A person, has a lower user number than I another site we both frequent. The point being that for all the things I absorb in a day, sometimes basic facts can go right by me. And also that Anil's thoughtful posts (such as his thoughts on the book) have helped me understand a lot about the web right now, and you should check him out. [This is good]
