Posted in long tail on Sep 29th, 2007 No Comments »
In a post from “The long tail” a small movie director has written an interesting e-mail to Chris Anderson. But the reality at this time for me and my company is that I need to find multiple large national distributors if I hope to even come close to making a living at this game. And [...]
Posted in long tail, paticipation, social networks on Sep 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Some books are very helpful in making you understand developments. This summer I have read a book called “The Cluetrain manifesto”. Central theme of the book (which by the way is written in 2000 but started as as website in 1999) is the statement that markets (and a lot of other things) are conversations. The [...]
Posted in diversity, long tail, recommandation on Jul 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
This is such an interesting example of how our new production of information can go wrong:This is an interview with Christine Boutin, the French minister of housing, about the conspiracy that George W Bush is behind the attack on the WTC towers on 9/11. A small translation of the first part goes like this: I [...]
Posted in long tail on Jun 30th, 2007 No Comments »
LadybirdOriginally uploaded by Vigdis T Sometimes the power of the long tail amazes me. The picture on the side is of a ladybird. It is coming from the group “Tiny animals on fingers”. Oh yeah, I suppose this is not a picture of a ladybird but a picture of a ladybird on a finger. Of [...]
Posted in long tail, social networks on Jun 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Delegation of work and responsibility should be done to the people with the greatest stake in the result and who are best equipped to handle the task. This is true in organisation theory as well in the cooperation between companies and their customers. In interesting development in this area is TomTom Map Share. Here it is possible to add [...]
Posted in long tail, privacy on Jun 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Just after my last post I read this article about the way digital traces from a young and sometimes foolish past can catch up to you. In the article I mentioned above from danah boyd a hypothetical case is written where somebody gets confronted during a job interview with the fact that she has protested against the [...]
Posted in long tail on Jun 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Evolution is driven by selection and attrition. The adapted ones flourish and the others wither away into oblivion. That also means that new and improved versions (of our genetically previous us for example) are build upon the DNA of the already improved version. And that is a Good Thing. As well as being the main reason we evolved in [...]
Posted in long tail on Jun 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Don’t you get tired of choice? I do. Some time ago I had to arrange a new connection for TV, Telephone and Internet for my mother who has moved from Spain to Arnhem. In the old days you just called KPN and: presto. Now there is unlimited choice with very little help. In the end [...]
Posted in long tail, social networks, workspace on May 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Maybe, given other choices, you could have been another Steven Spielberg. Maybe even better. Steven Spielberg became Steven Spielberg because he made the choices early on that were fitting with his talent. And since in a short tailed world success breeds success he became one of the most successful directors since producers are inclined to [...]
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