Only you can save television
(The Long Tail blog)
"We're ending one era and entering another where the rules are sure to be different.The best example of that is television, which is in the sweet spot of all Long Tail forces. So today, let me make one of those exceptions by explaining why TV is the first place to look for Long Tail opportunities. Here's why..." There's a bazillion hours of television content out there, very little of which is original, by the way, but you can only consume it one second at a time, like spoonfuls from an ocean. If you watched TV every second for the rest of your life, if everyone did, we'd all only consume of fraction of what's available. And yet, ten years from now, you may have a craving for that long-forgotten episode of "Diff'rent Strokes"... but it's not available. In the end, if media companies continue to run the TV business as usual, they're going to lose. Dinosaurs, they are. I think I'm starting to understand. Like Long Tail's Chris Anderson says, "Bottom line: TV is begging to be reinvented."
Blogged: Thursday, March 31, 2005

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1. Find an Undervalued Asset. Fix It Up. Flip It. (Now It's Web Sites, Not Houses)
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2. China in Africa
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3. Gmail: The Choice of Spammers?
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4. .ME Top Level Domain launch indicative of new TLD rollouts
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5. Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America
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6. Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are
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7. Brett Ratner Launches Branding Consultancy
   (Advertising Age)
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8. Get Satisfaction
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9. Toshiba Halts HD DVD Production, Mulls Future
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10. Andrew Bogut Had a Point
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11. Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Bid for Yahoo! Yawn.
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12. He's Gone by Puffy, Diddy and Now ... Brand Manager
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13. Tiger Woods, Gatorade Team Up on Gatorade Tiger
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14. Clean is Happy?
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15. Mobileform Hide-a-Bunk-Bed
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16. How to get rich
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17. In Praise of Tap Water
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18. Use condoms
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19. A Fresh Take on Islamic Finance
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20. Burgers paid for by mobile phone
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21. Dell crowdsources innovation
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22. Two held after ad campaign triggers Boston bomb scare
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23. Money
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24. The problem with Made in China
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25. Apple sued over iPhone - more to follow?
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26. Ad Age Agency of the Year: The Consumer
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27. The Low Point
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28. Starbucks pours for the NAACP
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29. A Whole New Game Ball? N.B.A. Admits Its Mistake
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30. Hershey to Produce Elvis Presley Candy
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31. Can Computer Models Help Select Better Movie Scripts?
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32. Behavioral Targeting Goes Mobile
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33. Ten Worst Internet Acquisitions Ever
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34. PlayStation 3 Has Landed
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35. Product Placement in the Pews? Microtargeting Meets Megachurches
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36. Social Media Strike Two for Edelman PR and Wal-Mart
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37. Sox thank heaven for 7:11
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38. GOOG-YouTube: Done Deal
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39. Consumers Rebel Against Marketers' Endless Surveys
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40. Anheuser-Busch Moves Into Content Creation Business
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41. QOTD: 'You have to buy a new iPod at least once a year.'
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42. Jimi
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43. The 'Lost 1984' Mac Clips
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44. Who Really Won The Super Bowl?
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45. SuperBowlAds.us
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46. Amex Sues CEO Over $241,000 Topless Bill
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47. A wide world of sports fans
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48. What Is Web 2.0?
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    Blogged: Sunday, October 9, 2005
49. secret history of the credit card
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50. Paris Book Vending Machines Feed the Mind Day or Night
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51. Terrell Owens
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52. Wal-Mart opens in Shanghai
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53. Pimp That Phone
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54. The fall of Hollywood?
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55. American Express Begins Issuing Contactless Payment Cards
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56. Google tops TW as Street's No. 1 media stock
    (Hollywoodreporter.com)
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57. WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price
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58. Man Bites Phish
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59. VOSS Water
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60. Change or Die
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61. SpotScout
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62. 'Monday Night Football' moving to ESPN
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63. Adobe to buy Macromedia
    (MarketWatch.com)
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64. Software Makes a Phone Different
    (gigaom)
    Blogged: Monday, April 18, 2005
65. Only you can save television
    (The Long Tail blog)
    Blogged: Thursday, March 31, 2005
66. Big Mac Pimpin'?
    (mtv.com)
    Blogged: Tuesday, March 29, 2005
67. Behind the curtain
    (BrandShift blog)
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68. Dead-end jobs in Delhi
    (News.com)
    Blogged: Wednesday, March 16, 2005
69. Fowler Close to Buying Vikings
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    Blogged: Monday, February 14, 2005
70. Why Your Pointy Haired Boss Is A Mathematical Certainty
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71. Stewart to Star in Trump Spinoff
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72. Record oil prices spur Exxon Mobil profit higher
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73. Mini Me
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74. Companies that have fired people for blogging
    (BoingBoing)
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75. Beware the CEO blog
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76. China strives for its own global mega-brands
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77. Opening up TV, a new API
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78. fragmentation of fashion
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79. The Fragmentation of Fashion II
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80. Marketers Chase Consumers Into The Bathroom
    (AdAge.com)
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81. Hooters sets its eyes on India
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82. The needed changes in (US Basketball)
    (ESPN.com)
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83. Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow
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84. Trolley offers supermarket workout
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85. dodgeball.com
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86. Thank you, Donald
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87. A Different Campaign for Nike
    (NY Times)
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88. QOTD: "Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things."
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89. The truth about Orkut.com
    (Corante:Many-to-Many)
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90. Clarett wins lawsuit against NFL
    (ESPN.com)
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91. National Do Not Call Registry
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92. Going, going, gone ... for $517,000
    (ESPN.com)
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93. MTAmazon
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94. Big Macs replace loaves and fishes at Pope's pray-in
    (Guardian UK)
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95. Corporate blogs make personal connection
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96. Publishers ... We Know the Numbers Lie
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97. A music industry case study
    (NY Daily News)
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98. US fuel reserves run to record low
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99. GreenTentacles
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100. Name Bias in Job Search
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101. Comcast to launch Black TV net
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102. Flexcar
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103. The French Love McDonald's?
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104. McDonald's adds DVD rental to menu
     (Straits Times)
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105. Bid to create Viagra-like pill for women opposed
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106. Will Your TV Become a Spy?
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107. What Should I Do With My Life?
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108. Lousy Service Cripples United, McDonalds
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109. Beyonce Knowles Bounces Britney
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110. Corruption 'Rampant' in Two-Thirds of Countries
     (Yahoo! News)
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111. Brand names really do stick in brain
     (MSNBC)
     Blogged: Wednesday, August 14, 2002
112. Clinton Rips Bush on 90's Fraud
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113. Simple Arithmetic
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114. Trends - EATING HABITS
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115. Trends - HOME IMPROVEMENT AND RETAIL
     (MarketSegment.com)
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116. Trends - CONSUMER SPENDING
     (MarketSegment.com)
     Blogged: Friday, March 29, 2002
117. Trends - CABLE
     (MarketSegment.com)
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118. Four Kinds of Company Men
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119. Aggressive investing, and the virtues of Venus
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120. 1rstBooks.com
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121. Chinese Working Overtime to Sew U.S. Flags
     (washingtonpost.com)
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122. Drink Responsibly
     (SF Gate)
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123. Web Ad Blocking
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124. Review of Nissan Car Loans Finds That Blacks Pay More
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     Blogged: Thursday, July 5, 2001
125. Signs of strong economy disappoint investors
     (sunspot.net)
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126. Keep a Web journal, get fired ... or worse
     (Salon.com)
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127. Shatner Stock in Priceline
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128. Copyright Myths
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