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Writing in the New York Post, Nick Gillespie reviews Chris Anderson's The Long Tail and happily envisions a world where consumers devour dozens of flavors of jam while drinking 19,000 varieties of coffee and listening to 1.5 million MP3s.
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Long Tail, so yesterday, it's all about the Fat Tail Mate:
http://www.rabbitbites.com/archive/longtail.html
My worry about having such a wonderful array of choices is that people will just give up and buy whatever crap the most attractive spokesmodel sells them. Oh wait, that's already reality.
Oh wait, that's already reality.
Huh??
I think maybe that was a trueism from the 50's...and even then it was pretty much untrue...
where do you get this crap?