New Media Leaking into Old Media

I was poking through the satellite radio stations on my Gillmor Gang. OK, that's weird. But then I switch over to NPR and, whoa, Chris Anderson is on talking about the Long Tail. Hey, Chris, can you get vlogmap, then that's cool. But some really have dreams of being at the head of the tail. Why? Cause that's where the money is. I learned that in the book business. The books who are in the top 5 on Amazon make many times more than books that hang out around #1,000 to #5,000 as we've been doing lately. And, being at #5,000 is a great honor cause there's more than one million books on Amazon. I'm looking for people who are walking up the Long Tail. Are you? Give me a call. Oh, and Leo Laporte makes a good case for the other point of view). There are ways to hand out goodies equally to all members, but to say "I ain't paying anyone" seems to me to be the kind of capitalist who just wants free materials and huge profits. It's why I hated the time I heard all the CEOs say "user generated content" at the Google Zeitgeist conference last year since they were all seeing huge profit possibilities by having users do the work and they just collect the profits. Anyway, we're here in Silicon Valley and I'm overwhelmed with email. So, I'm gonna take a few days off of blogging and catch up with that. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: Scobleizer blog. He works as Scobleizer