Man with Tail

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=453 "Wired" editor and author Chris Anderson explains his theory of "The Long Tail," using the music and film industries as examples. ----- You know something is up when an audience member is taking cell phone photos of the presenter's slides for instant transmittal to a business partner. Chris Anderson does have killer slides, full of exuberant detail, defining the exact shape of the still emerging opportunity space for finding and selling formerly infindable and unsellable items of every imaginable description. The 25 million music tracks in the world. All the TV ever broadcast. Every single amateur video. All that is old, arcane, micro-niche, against-the-grain, undefinable, or remote is suddenly as accessible as the top of the pops. "The power law is the shape of our age," Anderson asserted, showing the classic ski-jump curve of popularity - a few things sell in vast quantity, while a great many things sell in small quantity. It's the natural product of variety, inequality, and network effect sifting, which amplifies the inequality. "Everything is measurable now," said Anderson, comparing charts of sales over time of a hit music album with a niche album. The hit declined steeply, the niche album kept its legs. The "long tail" of innumerable tiny-sellers is populated by old hits as well as new and old niche items. That's the time dimension. For the first time in history, archives have a business model. Old stuff is more profitable because the acquisition cost is lower and customer satisfaction is higher. Infinite-inventory Netflix occupies the sweet spot for movie distribution, while Blockbuster is saddled with the tyranny of the new. Anderson explained that we are leaving an age where distribution was ruled by channel scarcity - 3 TV networks, only so many movie theater screens, limited shelf space for books. "Those scarcity effects make a bottleneck that distorts the market and distorts our culture. Infinite shelf space changes everything." Books are freed up by print-on-demand (already a large and profitable service at Amazon), movies freed by cheap DVDs, old broadcast TV by classics collections, new videos by Google Videos and YouTube online. Even the newest game machines are now designed to be able to emulate their earlier incarnations, so you can play the original "Super Mario Bros." if so inclined - and many are. "I'm an editor of a Conde-Nast magazine [Wired] AND I'm a blogger," said Anderson. In other words, he works both in the fading world of "pre-filters" and the emerging world of "post-filters." Pre-filtering is ruled by editors, A&R guys ("artist and repetoire," the talent-finders in the music biz), studio execs, and capital-B Buyers. Post-filtering is driven by readers, recommenders, word of mouth, and buyers. Will Hearst joined Anderson on the stage and noted that social networking software has automated word of mouth, and that's what has "unchoked the long tail of sheer obscure quantity in the vast backlog of old movies, for example." Anderson agreed, "The marketing power of customer recommendations is the main driver for Netflix, and it is zero-cost marketing." "By democratizing the tools of distribution, we're seeing a Renaissance in culture. We're starting to find out just how rich our society is in terms of creativity," Anderson said. But isn't there a danger, he was asked from the audience, of our culture falling apart with all this super-empowered diversity? Anderson agreed that we collect strongly and narrowly around our passions now, rather than just weakly and widely around broadcast hits, but the net gain of overall creativity is the main effect, and a positive one. Questions remain, though. "Digital rights is the elephant in the room of freeing the long tail." Clearing copyright on old material is a profoundly wedged process at present, with no solution in sight. Will Hearst fretted that we may be becoming an "opinionocracy," swayed by TV bloviators and online bloggers, losing the grounding of objective reporting. Anderson observed that maybe the two-party system is a pre-long-tail scarcity effect that suppresses the diversity we're now embracing. Much of how we run our culture has yet to catch up with the long tail - Stewart Brand, The Long Now Foundation

a song from an american tail two siblings on opposite sides of new york city (i think lol) i own nothing

TONES ON TAIL "GO!" Between Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, there was Tones on Tail. This was their biggest radio hit, recently made famous again in a Mercury Milan commercial. ----------- BRINGING 4GOTTEN TRAXXX BACK TO THE MASSES! We're posting audio versions of long-forgotten music from the 70s, 80s, and 90s for your listening pleasure. We tend to focus on songs or versions that either have no existing video or one that is not posted on YouTube, and/or are out-of-print, rare and difficult to find. WE PROVIDE THIS SERVICE FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE ONLY, any copying, reproducing or downloading is strictly prohibited. We do not trade or sell mp3s, so don't even ask. All of the items pictured come from private collections, and they are not for sale. Our purpose is to highlight songs that have been unjustly ignored over time, to reunite fans of these long-lost artists, and to hopefully generate enough renewed interest in these past classics to inspire the music industry to offer these songs for sale as legal downloads or reissue these them as compilations. ENJOY AND REMINISCE!

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the Blues Brothers and Ray Charles

Young Knives turn tail video, out 19th mat

Patent on "Long Tail" for automated content authorship. FAQ As the video shows, I am working on reference books, reports and educational titles (not fiction or literature). The "algorithms" depend on the genre. The most advanced use parametric, non-parametric as well as Bayesian econometrics, graph theory, and meta analysis (mostly coupled with some specialized computational linguistics and editorial rules that are required within certain genres) -- each piece is rather straight forward; the combination allows complexity. In terms of IT or programming languages, there is no rigidity to this - again it depends on the genre. If animation is the goal, then code is written to write MEL scripts, etc., which can automate Maya, which can in turn automate rendering, lights, etc., via macros. This works well, but for only certain aspects of that genre. For more detailed discussions, here is the patent link: http://www.google.com/patents?id=bHeBAAAAEBAJ&dq=philip+m+parker Some titles are 98 to 100 percent computer automated (e.g. business titles, crosswords, etc.). For health titles, only the format editing and production side is automated. The text in the health books was written by medical professionals and edited by a professional editor; the computer expedited formatting using about 50 odd routines (the preface, chapter intros, glossaries, indexes, headings, margins, etc.); highlights are made to sources generally not known to internet-averse readers or medical practitioners (designed for medical libraries with internet training services). Currently, some 2 percent of the titles rely on government sources for text. None perform a google search, spider the net, etc. Some 98 percent of the titles are wholly generated via automation programs; the applications create original information or content that cannot be found elsewhere (e.g. maximum likelihood trade estimates, latent demand forecasts via a decision calculus approach, Chinese and English crosswords, etc.) - offline applications with no interaction to the internet. In total, there are about 17 genres created this way (about 200,000 titles or so since 2000). It can take several years to set up an application (including all human inputs, licensed sound effects, textures, models, mocap, data, or decision rules that go into any genre-specific application). Platforms (e.g. Maya) pre-exist. The incremental, or marginal creation time per title is mentioned in the video. The genres are blind or peer reviewed and/or vetted by users (e.g. librarians or end-users) before they are put into print. The games are played by kids to see what they like. For 3D games, a pre-existing rendering engine is like a blank word document. The rendering engine is not created from scratch, but licensed (like MS Word). I am mostly now working on education titles for Asian, African, and Native American languages that do not have educational materials (games, supplements, texts, videos, mobile phone books, etc.) written in or augmented by their languages. See my dictionary at: http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/credits/editor.html to see a very small percent of the linguistic material used. Watch for a major update and linguistic augmentation to the dictionary this summer when I will also be introducing EVE. She is an "economically viable entity". A step beyond a chat bot, using some of the algorithms mentioned above (with a bit of utility theory and optimal control theory thrown in). There is no "commercial" or "public" or "open source" software that can be used by the general public. Some applications are terabytes large. I am working on a relatively small poetry application for public use -- to be released when completed (probably in a year), which will do several forms of poetry, on any topic the user desires; and allow the user to request "another" if they do not like the first one written, or "change that line", etc. I am not actively working on fiction novels as a priority, though the process is in place for romance novels or similar formulaic types of literature. Fun to do, but not very useful. There are many other areas I am working on, as there are multiple avenues to explore, especially in the areas of new media (mobile and fixed), but more so in high-end analytics and knowledge discovery (i.e. generating knowledge that could not be created otherwise) as applied to business, language and public services (e.g. criminology) - where unmanageable, sparse, disintegrated or larger data sets (off-line) result in new knowledge structures usable by decision makers (e.g. connecting the dots where humans have difficulty doing so, for lack of time or expertise). Thanks for watching the video. Phil

At deals gap with a friend filming me from the back of his bike. Enjoy the new riding season (safely) guys & gals....the artist of the songs playing is 'Shinedown' for those who feel like asking :)

Deleted scene from POTO...so sad:(

two of the only known photos of Robert Johnson..two of the disputed grave sites...and scan of Robert Johnson' Death Certificate

Director: Tim Allsop Producer: Richard Welsh Editor: Pants DOP: Tim Green With thanks to Pirate Official site - www.pulltigertail.net

Its his new single off Hustler's P.O.M.E.. Nice slideshow along with the song.

Shake your tail feather Ike and Tina Turner aus dem Film Whats Love got to do with it.

In this interview at eMetrics, Avinash Kaushik encourages us to rethink search. Instead of keywords, think instead in terms of 'long tail' keyphrases that are used infrequently, but represent qualified, motivated customers. His initial advice is to use SEO or organic search for brand and 'head' terms, and to exploit paid search for 'long tail' terms. SEO should be seen as a long-term strategy.

Author Chris Anderson visits Google to discuss his book, "The Long Tail" This event took place on July 18, 2006, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Young Knives music video for song 'Turn Tail' from their new album Superabundance.

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Here goes the last one.. hehe ep 15 really sad huh, i didn't want ... one of the warrior, the one always drive the motocycle to die... i love him :(. Have fun yah. I'm glad that you all like this movie ^^ Since i got lots of message asking abou tthe OST for the movie, i Dont know where u can download it, but here's the list: 01. Main title 02. dalm eun sarang (Trance pop version) - Seo Jin Young 03. Always - Han Dong Gyoon (Wanted) 04. dal bit chuh rum - Seo Jin Young 05. dalm eun sarang (ballad version) - Seo Jin Young 06. Bounce - Jed (D. Bace) 07. Come, let's us worship (Vespers OP.37) by Rachmaninov 08. Lisa's Aria (Queen of spades Scene VI) by Tchaikovsky 09. Dalm eun sarang (Trance pop version) (Instrumental) 10. Always (Instrumental) 11. Dal bit chuh rum (Instrumental) 12. Dalm eun sarang (orgel version) 13. Goo mi ho chool hyun 14. Dalm eun sarang (Ballad version) (Instrumental) ~*~*~ Good luck and have fun ^^~

Teen boys whipping each other with a towel.

David shows you how to cast on for your knitting with the long-tail method. So grab a needle and some yarn and let's get started!

My 98 Mitsubishi Eclipse LED taillight conversion with 7-segment sequential turn signals and sequential brake lights. All custom built.

A musical sequence from An American Tail: Fievel Goes West.

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My Leopard Geckos and Fat tail Gecko