The online music retailer eMusic has put out some interesting data that, it is claimed, supports the famous “Long Tail” theory of online retail. Chris Anderson (picture), the editor in chief of Wired magazine, coined the phrase in a 2004 article, claiming that Internet retailers would sell more niche products at the expense of mass-market items. However, this theory was challenge in a recent study by Will Page and Andrew Bud, which claimed more than 10 million of the 13 million music tracks available on the Internet failed to find a single buyer last year. In response, eMusic has reported that 75% of the tracks in its catalogue were bought at least once in 2008.

Here’s the next trend to study: Free. This is a video of Chris Anderson discussing his next book. Chris is the editor of Wired and author of The Long Tail. Kudos to whoever at Nokia decided to put this keynote online for the rest of us. And kudos to Core77 for finding it via Nova.

There has been a firestorm of discussion lately after Chris Anderson, editor of Wired Magazine and author of the long tail recently "outed" all the PR professionals that had been contacting him with anonymous spam style "Dear Editor" communications.  On a day where he had more than 300 of these, he finally decided he had enough and fired off a post banning those PR folks from contacting him and adding him to his blocked sender list.

Several months ago, a little robot did a little dance and captured the hearts of the Internets. He was a very sophisticated robot, but didn't look like the typical Transformer-inspired, back-handspring-performing models coming out of Japan that make the rounds at gadget sites. This robot was cute. Very cute. His name is Keepon, and he's like a little, yellow, mouthless snowman and baby chick rolled into one. With googly-eyes that don't google. His signature anthropomorphic skill: dancing.

Arlington, Va. - PBS said on Tuesday that it has picked up the first season of "Wired Science," a new weekly primetime series produced by KCET in Los Angeles in association with Wired Magazine. The one-hour show will debut Oct. 3 and run for 10 weeks, chronicling "the scientific advances and technologies that are transforming the world."