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Hadn’t Thought Of It Quite This Way …

February 17, 2005 in Main Page | No comments

But it seems, feels right.  From Chris Anderson’s Long Tail blog:
 
 
Why Long Tail Content is Different
 
Charles Mann, one of my favorite writers (dating way back to our Science days), writes with a great perspective on why the nature of content changes as you go down the Tail. He quotes David Foster Wallace from his famous essay (found in “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”) on television:
 
TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb.
 
Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.
 
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