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Making electronic music in the Long Tail

Submitted by richardcadler on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 07:10
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http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/feature/everything-popular-is-wrong-ma...

Calling the author a skeptic of the Long Tail isn't the half of it. Stefan Goldmann sees the current environment as being a serious step down for both artists and their fans/listeners:

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The Pareto principle, HarperCollins ebook lending scheme, and the long tail

Submitted by richardcadler on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 08:02
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http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2011/03/pareto-principle-and-true-cunn...

Eric Hellman takes a statistical approach to HarperCollins 26-ebook-lending scheme and suggests there's an anti-long tail strategy at work here:

"So here's the cunning. By focusing on popularity-driven revenue mechanisms, HarperCollins is pushing money towards the smash hits and away from the long tail. Libraries may be adversely affected, but they're collateral damage. It's the long tail publishers that HarperCollins is trying to destroy."

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The Persistence of Mass Culture

Submitted by richardcadler on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 11:14
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http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/63421/

This short piece didn't go at all where I expected it to. In fact, its closing point is well-taken:

...Throw in Avatar, the Team Coco late-night wars, the recent return of American Idol—“Pants on the Ground”!—and the upcoming Super Bowl, and it’s actually been a pretty good stretch for mass culture.

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Online Monoculture and the End of the Niche - Whimsley

Submitted by Sam Rose on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 21:21
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http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2009/03/online-monoculture-and-the-...

Received in an email from Michel

Online merchants such as Amazon, iTunes and Netflix may stock more items than your local book, CD, or video store, but they are no friend to "niche culture". Internet sharing mechanisms such as YouTube and Google PageRank, which distil the clicks of millions of people into recommendations, may also be promoting an online monoculture. Even word of mouth recommendations such as blogging links may exert a homogenizing pressure and lead to an online culture that is less democratic and less equitable, than offline culture.

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