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Video Parody of the Long Tail

Authored by Jay Baage on July 30, 2006 - 10:30am.

Check out this funny video just made available on YouTube by Peter Hirshberg of Technorati and Michel Markman, based on Chris Anderson's much discussed new book "The Long Tail". Anderson usually shows it at the end of his speeches and says on his blog that: “some of the lines, such as ‘There are a lot more of them than there are of us’… are now permanently lodged in my brain”.

Will Murdoch buy YouTube?

Authored by Jay Baage on July 17, 2006 - 12:27pm.

It is no surprise that News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is hunting for the next great Internet company to buy after striking gold when acquiring MySpace.com last year. According to an LA Times source, Murdoch has already made an offer to buy Internet video sensation YouTube.com. If successful, he would own two of the hottest Internet properties out there, slowly transforming his media empire from old media to new media.