{"id":772,"date":"2008-08-21T22:17:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T21:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2008\/08\/21\/772\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T22:17:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T21:17:05","slug":"the-reality-of-the-long-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-reality-of-the-long-tail\/","title":{"rendered":"The reality of the long tail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yeliseev\/103574918\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/24\/103574918_5f03533022_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yeliseev\/103574918\/\">Long-tailed Tit<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/yeliseev\/\">Sergey Yeliseev<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2195151\/?from=rss\">an article in Slate<\/a> discussing whether the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Long_Tail\">long tail<\/a> is as long as has been thought.  Please do read it.<\/p>\n<p>I think there might be a lot of truth in this, and I think it&#8217;s got to do with knowledge: In order to buy an obscure book or film, you first need to know it exists.  It simply is not very likely anybody will pay money for a random song from iTunes that nobody has recommended to them.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, I think the size of the long tail is depending on online communities.  If people mainly get their information from TV and other mainstream media, they&#8217;re going to buy items from the head, not the long tail.<\/p>\n<p>Only if many people get a lot of their information from blogs or Facebook groups or other specialised contexts is it likely that the tail gets really long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-tailed Tit Originally uploaded by Sergey Yeliseev There&#8217;s an article in Slate discussing whether the long tail is as long as has been thought. Please do read it. I think there might be a lot of truth in this, and I think it&#8217;s got to do with knowledge: In order to buy an obscure book or film, you first need to know it exists. It simply is not very likely anybody will pay money for a random song from iTunes that nobody has recommended to them. Because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}