Comments on: Supernova Day 1 Notes http://www.spideysenses.com/2005/06/21/supernova-day-1-notes/ Ted Rheingold's web journal Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:57:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: tim http://www.spideysenses.com/2005/06/21/supernova-day-1-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-22 tim Fri, 01 Jul 2005 21:52:31 +0000 http://www.spideysenses.com/2005/06/supernova-day-1-notes/#comment-22 my friend ted (other friend ted) knew those hotornot guys - what a story! i totally agree on the whole long tail thing. it works great for commodity-type goods like CDs or digital songs, but not so good for more complicated stuff. and like every "radically new" argument, if you mull it over a bit, seems to be an echo of something we already know. what the long tail seems best at is being a pitch tool -- a nugget used to help sell some idea. nothing new there, but didn't we get burned on this kind of hyperbole a few years ago? my friend ted (other friend ted) knew those hotornot guys - what a story!

i totally agree on the whole long tail thing. it works great for commodity-type goods like CDs or digital songs, but not so good for more complicated stuff. and like every “radically new” argument, if you mull it over a bit, seems to be an echo of something we already know.

what the long tail seems best at is being a pitch tool — a nugget used to help sell some idea. nothing new there, but didn’t we get burned on this kind of hyperbole a few years ago?

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