... has found out that the arguments put forward by WIRED editor Chris Anderson in The Long Tail, might not be exactly spot ... , this gets quickly into such exciting territory as defining what is the "head" versus the "tail." Elberse writes that "It is therefore highly disputable that much money can be made in the tail. In sales of both videos and recorded music-in many ways the perfect products to test the long-tail theory-we see that hits are and ... 'producers' in an age of Cafe Press and Blurb and apps like WarBook on Facebook we need to tread carefully. As long as ...

Beth Griese - posted a response Is Learning 2.0 a long tail? to my post Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention ... ), rather than requiring the power of an Amazon-sized retailer to meet a near-infinite long tail of interests. If I think ... want to make sure that we don't delude ourselves: Long tail learning is effectively infinite There is no way for an ... the shrinking tall end of the long tail or we can look at how we can play in the long tail where smaller audience sizes ... "traditional means" training topics, but I do limit that to things that are job-related, which is why I think the tail ...

John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler's recent article - Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 talks about the implications of the Long Tail on Education. The article is definitely worth a read, and it got me ... concept of the Long Tail, head over to take a look at the Long Tail article on Wikipedia. It's a pretty good ... Anderson's The Long Tail . The core idea is that for retailers like Amazon, they sell very large volumes of titles that cannot even be carried in a bricks-and-mortar store. Typical Long Tail Carried further, when distribution, storage ...

Application Market: Long Tail Rules - O'Reilly The good news has already been widely disseminated: there are nearly 5000 ... the Long Tail , be sure to read the comments in the article. Social Networking Meets Corporate Learning - ...

... of the long tail .   Even more so if you have ever bought, or sold, something on the internet.  Chris Anderson, the author of The Long Tail, writes this post in response the Wall Street Journal article that tries (unsuccessfully) to tear down the book and the concept.  This comment from the Long tail blog reflects my thoughts... "It seems that Gomes [the WSJ author] decided he was going to debunk the Long Tail, then let confirmation bias take over ... Long Tail book is a good book and has valid points does not make for good reading.  Why?  Because you ...

Long-tail economics favors the blockbuster, Harvard study finds - c/net Remember the long tail? It was the ... long tail, after all. Your Mashup Is Probably Legal - Slashdot "We've been conditioned to think that if you pull ... The Mirror Neuron Revolution: Explaining What Makes Humans Social - Scientific American Mirror Neurons collapse the distinction between seeing and doing. Virtual training at Fort Benning While much of a recruit's introduction to the Army is the same as it has always been--firing ranges, long marches, obstacle courses, and the like--the Army ...

Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape - eLearning Technology Long tail learning is effectively infinite ... February 25, 2008 What's the Value of Learning? - Donald Taylor This is not some relativistic world where training is fine as long as the manager says it's good (what David Wilson of Elearnity terms the 'conspiracy of convenience'). No, there are particular types of measure that are of value to stakeholders, and as long as the learning function can show its effect on these, and be seen to be operating effectively, then it is doing its job. Note: Donald ...

Microsoft is having trouble supporting the long tail.  37signals is filling the gaps in web based productivity software ... MS suite but choose a more user-friendly, well designed web product. So where are the little guys supporting the long tail in eLearning?  Where's the little LMS challenging the bloated million dollar LMS products?  ...

This month's Big Question - Scope of Learning Responsibility? (see my posts: Learning Responsibility , Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape) has raised some interesting questions in my mind. It also just triggered something for me around Learning Objectives vs. Performance Objectives vs. Business Needs. Mick Leyden - Professional Responsibility??? tells us: The learning professional is responsible for ensuring ... yourself to focus only on content, immediate knowledge transfer, the fat end of the Long Tail Learning. Is this possibly ...

... the only devices that make use of it. That is set to change. An author with a 'long tail' - c/net When Wired Magazine published an article called "The Long Tail," it immediately became a phenomenon on the order of Malcolm ...

When New Ideas Are Bad for Innovation - Business Week What is especially impressive about Apple's feat is that [Apple] did it with an R&D spend that is one-tenth the size of Microsoft's annual spend, and that they did it during a period of otherwise flat industry performance. Web 2.0: Dog or Tail Is Web 2.0 the next Long Tail or a dog ? Related links: The Long Tail and B2B . Towards A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods for Management - VISUAL-LITERACY You have seen the Visualization Table , now read the paper behind it. Be sure to check out their other ...

... do as a training organization (see Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning - Size and ... departments have responsibility for supporting Long Tail Learning? Do they have responsibility for learning beyond what can be ... ! Tony Karrer - Learning Responsibility Bill Brantley - More Thoughts on the Long Tail of Learning Jay ...

... do as a training organization (see Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning - Size and ... departments have responsibility for supporting Long Tail Learning? Do they have responsibility for learning beyond what can be ... ! Tony Karrer - Learning Responsibility Bill Brantley - More Thoughts on the Long Tail of Learning Jay ...

August 26, 2006 A Taxonomy of Knowledge - The Atlantic Not all books are created equal. To a librarian, at least, this truth is self-evident: some books are too important to lend out at all. Fireside Chat: The Long Tail - Signal vs. Noise The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail. In this chat, the participants discuss the impact of the tail, mass amateurization, the role of ...

The big question for March 2008 is - Scope of Learning Responsibility? Karl Kapp helped me pull this question together and it's been interesting to see the responses so far. I wanted to capture some thoughts as I've been reading these posts so far. First, my earlier posts Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape lay out that I believe the space in which Corporate Learning (and realistically all learning professionals) operates is changing such that unless they look at providing Long Tail Learning, they will be a continually ...

... the long tail - growing changing learning creating Challenges faced by the big providers and buyers of adult education.

... the crux of his mission. Comment: The Web 2.0 long tail - iTnews The social networking phenomenon is upon ...

... apperception, can be seen in experts in other fields as well. The Wrong Tail: How to turn a powerful idea into a dubious theory of everything - Slate This insight goes only so far, but like many business books, The Long Tail ...

... to someone (the long tail).  We can data mine the piles of content and filter out the nuggets of information ...

... can make a have a bigger influence on learning - overall - by using the long tail of learning. Where do we stop? Do ... tail, this learning expands to include much more than learning. For example, it can include projects, meetings, ...

... personal. He engaged as many as possible. He used the long tail of contributions to achieve record ...

... relying on the instructor). This is exactly what the implication is Learning's Long Tail and Attention Crisis , Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape , eLearning 2.0. Just so I'm fair to everyone, here are some competitors to ... it is to grab existing content and modify it for your purposes. This is something we've wanted to do for a long time ...

... normally focus on more advanced topics. In Disruptive Changes in Learning , I point to how the long tail of learning ... conference organizers. How do you pursue opportunity in the long tail?

... going to make progress with Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis , I think we have to think about ...

Thinking is so over - Times Online The idea that content on the web is "free" is mistaken: the hidden cost may be the demise of old media and entire art forms on which the free content depends. Another web idea dismantled by Keen is the concept of the "long tail" - the slow but gradual accumulation of sales by niche products such as books that could never have commanded shelf space in shops but can wait for buyers to find them on Amazon. In other words, you may never get more than 10 buyers for your little book of poetry, but thanks to the net you can publish it anyway. Somehow those ...

Here's my "do better" list... Nicola - my 3 Malinka Ivanova - The Students' Long Tail Jeffrey Keefer - What ...

... seen the long tail before. It was first used in 2004 to describe the business strategy of Amazon and ...

... but being a long tail learner. Keeping up with all the extra knowledge is impossible and you have to make ...

Here's my "do better" list... Nicola - my 3 Malinka Ivanova - The Students' Long Tail Jeffrey Keefer - What ...

The Long Tail * Confused of Calcutta - JP Rangaswami * Creativity Exchange - Richard Florida * ...