Wow

[bladespark]

I knew this all along, but I didn't know I knew this!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail

This is totally fascinating. It explains WHY the internet is changing how the economy works.

Comments

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

Long tail is actually a statistic that's used in mutagenesis rate calculations in rapidly dividing clonal populations.

(Yeah, you didn't need to know that.)

[silveradept]

Yep. The theory of the long tail allows the Internet to work, because they don't have to worry nearly as much about space issues beyond warehouse capacity for objects - and even then, they may not have to worry about it. You can appeal to smaller and smaller niches because you can have everything, like people think Amazon does.