I found an interesting article about the impact of the long tail on the blogosphere.
The article says:
"The long tail of the blogosphere is huge and so any individual blog is not easily discovered. That is, the chance that a random Internet surfer will find a blog that is part of the long tail is nearly zero."
So unlike amazon or google which draw a huge amount of users to their site, blogs, like individual websites, have a small chance of beeing seen by long tail users.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/blogosphere_long_tail.php
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Readwriteweb blogger emphasizes a good point - that the long tail can make money in the collective but being within it won't necessarily make you rich. What I took away from Andersen's article had more to do with access to the content of the long tail. Some people will make money and some won't but what is exciting about the long tail is the richness of content and the breadth of participation.
Broadcasting was all about affluent people with access to really expensive hardware like TV and radio stations newspapers and production facilities creating content and sending it out to as many people who wanted to watch or listen to or read it. And because it's all we had, we did watch or listen to or read it.
But now we can participate, not only in the distribution of content, which has led to the near death of the music industry and panic in all dimensions of print publication, but also in the production of content. That's truly revolutionary.
It will be interesting to see how it all shakes out.
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