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Day May 29, 2006

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The “long tail” economics challenge comprehension

May 29, ’06 9:51 PM

Publishing 2.0 � The Long Tail of Revenue 2.0

Much is made of the ability of ‘Web 2.0′ companies to monetise (ugh) the ‘long tail’ of the web. It’s such an old saw now that it’s becoming axiomatic, but every now and then it pays to question how this can work in practice. Publishing 2.0 has a nice article, based on his breaking the ‘magic 500 inward links’ (I didn’t even know that was a metric. oops).

If you base the math on 41.4 million blogs, Publishing 2.0 is in the top 0.006% of all blogs based on being linked to by only 0.001% of all blogs! That’s some wacky math.

Worth a read and a ponder.

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Schumacher quote

May 29, ’06 9:31 PM

BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Schumacher defends Monaco conduct

“Everyone’s got some spots on their clean vests,” he said.

Not only a stunning driver, petulant and imperious competitor, but an aphorist too.

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BBC: “Heathrow ‘should be phased out’ “

May 29, ’06 9:22 PM

Interesting that this debate has opened: it would have been inconceivable until recently (when British Pride would have required us to rally to the LHR flag and keep pushing for more runways, more terminals and – go on – a travelator from Oxford Circus).

Leaving aside the undoubted environmental impact of creating a 4-runway, 10-terminal behemoth in the path of migrating birds etc, this idea must surely be tickling the fancy of the London Development Agency and the East London boroughs… Never mind the Olympics, why disband the team in 2012 – let just move downstream and start building!

This is one to watch.

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