{"id":1557,"date":"2005-05-12T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/05\/12\/the-long-tail\/"},"modified":"2005-05-12T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-12T21:32:00","slug":"the-long-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/05\/12\/the-long-tail\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Tail"},"content":{"rendered":"

USA Today<\/span> has published some excerpts from a recent Churchill Club panel on “What’s ahead for [the] Net [and] digital entertainment”<\/a>. Here are my favorite quotes from the piece:<\/p>\n

“I want TiVo for BitTorrent.”
— Roger McNamee<\/p>\n

“The search tools that you use to find information, like Google and so on, don’t generally work in video.”
— Michael Ramsay<\/p>\n

“What’s been wrong is that capital, the money, has always been tied to distribution. The reason my firm [Elevation Partners<\/a>] exists is to change that, to put the capital with the content, with the creative people.”
— Roger McNamee<\/p>\n

“People still hate computers and can barely figure out what we’re talking about. I want to see my grandfather blog about the war or make a movie about his experiences in his life before it’s too late. People are missing that boat. We’re designing (technology) for the young males and the hard-core-technology demographic.”
— Blake Ross<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That last one resonates especially well with me. My friend Loren recently said, “I think old people should blog.” I agree; there’s so much information, so many great stories locked up in the heads of people who’ve been through amazing stretches of history, it seems a shame that most of it will be lost simply because they didn’t tell anyone who would record it.<\/p>\n

On that note, if you haven’t already, go read Art Spiegelman’s MAUS<\/span><\/a>, the only comic book<\/strike> graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize… so far. (Well, we can always hope, can’t we?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

USA Today has published some excerpts from a recent Churchill Club panel on “What’s ahead for [the] Net [and] digital entertainment”. Here are my favorite quotes from the piece: “I want TiVo for BitTorrent.” — Roger McNamee “The search tools…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}