Chris Anderson, who originally coined the term “long tail“, has a book coming out this year. According to his blog he has finished the manuscript and The Guardian newspaper has it on its “must read” list of 2006.

[The Long Tail is] supposedly the natural successor to the “tipping point” in the field of big business ideas…

And on the subject of the long tail distribution. The blog search engine Technorati tracks about 25.4 million websites. Assuming most of them are blogs, the long tail really stares you in the face when a new blog such as this one is registered on the site:

Technorati Rank: 1,088,376 (0 links from 0 sites)

Presumably, this means that of the sites being tracked, only 1 in 25 has an incoming link. Jason Kottke analyzed the long tail distribution of Technorati’s top 100 - this is the other end of it.

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