Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

Tag: LongTail

  • “A country bumpkin approach to slinging generalizations around”

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Anderson plagiarism

    WiReD magazine Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson has copped to lifting chunks of material for his second book Free from Wikipedia and other sources without credit. But it could be about to get a lot worse.

    In addition to the Wikipedia cut’n’pastes, Anderson appears to have lifted passages from several other texts too. And in a quite surreal twist, we discover that the Long Tail author had left a hard drive backup wide open and unsecured for Google to index, then accused … Read More

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  • P2P study: crackdown is bad for business

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    A study of P2P music exchanges to be revealed this week suggests that the ailing music business is shunning a lucrative lifeline by refusing to license the activity for money.

    Entitled “The Long Tail of P2P”, the study by Will Page of performing rights society PRS For Music and Eric Garland of P2P research outfit Big Champagne will be aired at The Great Escape music convention tomorrow. It’s a follow-up to Page’s study last year which helped debunk the myth… Read More

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  • Anderson downgrades Long Tail to Chocolate Teapot status

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Long Tail

    “The end came quickly,” as authors of morbid weepies like to say. On Monday WiReD magazine editor Chris Anderson effectively admitted game over for his “Long Tail”, the idea he’s been dragging so lucratively around the conference circuit for the past four years. In as many words, he downgraded it from “the future of business” to something that’s, er, not very helpful for your business at all.

    “I’ll end by conceding a point: It’s hard to make money in the … Read More

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  • The Long Tail can seriously damage your business

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    The most comprehensive empirical study of digital music sales ever conducted has some bad news for Californian technology utopians. Since 2004, WiReD magazine editor Chris Anderson has been hawking his “Long Tail” proposition around the world: blockbusters will matter less, and businesses will “sell less of more”. The graph has become iconic – a kind of ‘Hockey Stick’ for Web 2.0 – with the author applying his message to many different business sectors. Alas, following the WiReD Way of Business … Read More

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  • Universal exec – say goodbye to the old record co.

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    An RIAA board member and executive from the world’s biggest record company has said the old way of doing business has gone forever now.

    Larry Kenswil, president of Universal Music Group’s eLabs, might not speak for all of Universal Music, but he does speak for an important part of it. Kenswil today said labels could no longer “count units” but had to license rights.

    The eLabs chief’s comments caused a few jaws to drop here in Cannes, but it’s part … Read More

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  • Joost – the new, new TV thing

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Joost's EPG

    One of the most talked-about startups came out of the shadows this week, as The Venice Project revealed itself to the world as Joost. The company invited The Reg to its West End offices for a demonstration and a chat with CEO Fredrik de Wahl.

    Joost is an interactive, IP-based TV software system from the people who brought you Kazaa and Skype, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, considerably richer after the $2.6bn purchase of the telephony start-up by eBay.

    The … Read More

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