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Read Between the Mines: Jacob Neilsen also recently wrote about Zipf's curves .However, it was pointed out by presenter David Weinberger that the area under the long tail is larger than the area under the large head, as it were. (via Cosmos)
ITscout Blog: Power law distributions were originally observed by the linguist George Zipf who discovered that word frequency falls in a power law pattern, with a small number of high frequency words (I, of, the), a moderate number of common words (book, cat cup), and a huge number of low frequency words (peripatetic, hypognathous). (via Cosmos)
excuse :: my muse: Salon has a really interesting article on long tail economics, the Zipf curve , and why locating your favorite subculture commodities is about to get easier. Dammit, it's harder to be a rebel with obscure tastes every day. (via Cosmos)
The Long Tail: More on the Long Tail and libraries: "What struck me is the extent to which realizing that filter role -- guiding folks to discover materials they might not have otherwise imagined -- is fundamental service of Ranganathan's Third Law of Library Science. In fact, Ranganathan's own descriptions of the effects of the Third Law (from The Five Laws of Library Science) are Long Tail examples -- books that had sat on the shelf untouched for years behind the walls of the closed stacks found huge popularity in the advent of browsable open stacks and a cataloguing structure that was heavily cross-indexed. (via Cosmos)
atmaspheric | endeavors: Things like sports, and special live events are prime candidates, though streaming is an option as well especially as our network access speeds increase…If you still retain the basic options through your cable or satellite provider, you’ll need to pay more just for the right to have that option, unless you switch over to antenna viewing. (via Cosmos)
Joel Burslem: Writing, Editing, Marketing & Communications: Wouldn’t it be cool to dive into an archive of past “60 Minutes” segments for example, and be able to download and relive classic moments and interviews? What I’m getting at here is real “Long Tail” economics stuff. (via Cosmos)
[Doc.weblogs.com] The Doc Searls Weblog : Wednesday, December 1, 2004: As kragen points out in The long tail of ecommerce (in The Now Economy), the Long Tail conversation we've been having in the blogosphere goes back to Dave Sifry's talk at eTech in February. That was when he showed how, on the one hand, blogs like BoingBoing and sites like Slashdot were right up there with the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal in terms of authority, as defined (by both Google and Technorati) by the sum of inbound links pointing to them.
[Longtail.typepad.com] The Long Tail: Why is this blog so, well, wonky?: Following up on a panel we were on, he suggest that networked collections and interlibrary loans allow librarians to focus on niche material: "The good news about "the long tail" is that it is likely to free up librarians to do what they do best - manage finite collections of content with high levels of expertise while leaving to others the managing of massively popular content and specialized collections beyond their focus. Rather than focusing on easily reproduced content available commercially in electronic formats librarians can focus on obtaining and preserving truly rare content that is most important to their local patrons' needs.
[Susanmernit.blogspot.com] Susan Mernit's Blog: 12/2004 - 12/2004: Dan Gillmor announced today he's leaving the Merc to co-found a grassroots journalism venture (how exciting), Jeff Jarvis' latest big idea seems to be a network of online journals so local businesses can negotiate one deal and have their advertisements appear on several sites simultaneously(Via Leslie Walker in Washington Post), and Pegasus News' somewhat veiled (they are out there pitching) co-founders say their grassroots media project will trump Belo(and presumably others, once they wrestle Advance's local initiatives to the ground (joke).
[Dev.upian.com] Hot Links: Linkorama : ElfURL - Basically I suggested that it would be helpful to have a tool to make long URLs shorter, while at the same time providing a way to apply delicious tags, while at the same time adding statistics on the number of times the URL was accessed, and while having
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