(2006-02-10) Orchard Long Tail Yawp

Les Orchard gives a Long Tail Creative Yawp. So, imagine a more distributed entertainment universe populated by more creative people - with fewer big productions and even fewer gazillionaires. Creativity, attention, and time become the only significant scarcities. I agree that what's excellent about the Long Tail is that you can be happy just being Famous For Fifteen People, or you can see the potential to be Famous For One Hundred Fifty People (Dunbar Number), etc. up a sliding scale, going from Monolith Ic Monoculture to a sliding scale from Amateur on up...