Comments on: The Long Tail Pareto Ad Nauseum https://6sigma.com/the-long-tail-ad-nauseum/ Six Sigma Certification and Training Fri, 28 Feb 2025 06:03:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: shmula (shmula) https://6sigma.com/the-long-tail-ad-nauseum/#comment-24342 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:39:00 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/162/the-long-tail-is-the-wrong-tail#comment-24342 @rksmythe right – he talks in macro-terms & is very non-zero-sum thinking; here’s something you’ll like: http://is.gd/dckN

]]> By: shmula (shmula) https://6sigma.com/the-long-tail-ad-nauseum/#comment-24341 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:29:56 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/162/the-long-tail-is-the-wrong-tail#comment-24341 @humancell Chris Anderson’s fundamental assumptions were wrong at the very outset — he and I argued about this offline: http://is.gd/dckN

]]> By: Alan Patrick https://6sigma.com/the-long-tail-ad-nauseum/#comment-24340 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:22:41 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/162/the-long-tail-is-the-wrong-tail#comment-24340 The point you made about the work on optimising back end logistics via OR etc was very telling….reminds me that Amazon is still a physical distribution business at the end of the day, albeit with a good web front end….and that means physical limits to growth

with respect to the long tail……am I the only one seeing people seeming to cluster even more around the most popular stuff on social network content sites?

]]> By: atypical1 https://6sigma.com/the-long-tail-ad-nauseum/#comment-24339 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:21:26 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/162/the-long-tail-is-the-wrong-tail#comment-24339 It would be very interesting seeing the hard data that backs up this theory. Non-scientifically I can say that the tail is pretty big but 20% is probably a better estimate. I also agree that we should look at hardlines as well as books. We also might want to look at seasonality to see if the trend is different during the Christmas holiday.

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