Long Tail

the long right side of the Power Law curve

• Stephen Downes refers to the other end of the curve (known as the A-List in the Blogosphere) as the Big Spike; others call it the Big Head

  • with the Fat Belly in between them

Chris Anderson writes about it.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail_pr.html

blog http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/

Amazon sells more from the Long Tail than from the popular stuff.

A long critique by Tom Slee.