Day of the Longtail

Movie Trailer: In celebration of the publication of Chris Anderson's book, "The Long Tail," The old world of media faces an invasion from another planet. The horror. The horror. (By Michael Markman, Peter Hirshberg, Bob Kalsey; Produced for The Computer History Museum)

http://www.thelongtail.com/

More info: Chris's book examines the economic models for distributing content. It's now possible to move from having a few megahits controlled by a limited number of publishers to having thousands even millions of titles available all the time. YouTube is a big part of this revolution. We made this video from the perspective of the old line media companies who might view the Long Tail revolution as a threat.

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  Comedy

[BretterThanRealLife]

This is great dude. I think I might watch it again and again and again just to push its views up and and ruin your quarters. Mwahahahhahaaha.... jeez i wish I could show that much commitment to something

[mickeleh]

Go ahead... I'd love to see this one pass 500,000. It's not my solo work. It wasn't even my original idea. I was part of a team. We had a budget. Bought stock footage. It wasn't just dedication. It was funding.

[dangerouslytalented]

Dude, there is a REASON this is your number one video.

Awesome.

[mickeleh]

Thanks. (Actually, multiple reasons including the people I teamed with, the money we had to buy stock footage, and the fact that it was done in support of an important book about the way digital distribution is changing business.)

[nenalyzed]

awesome :D

I love how this video is about 3 years old, and some of the footage may or may not be older, but everything has changed so much! (and has not changed at all at the same time)

[mickeleh]

While it was posted three years ago, the video is over four years old.

[hfGermany]

Your comment beeing 3years old now (2010) and you posted it 6 years ago (2007) was it from 2006 or 2003?

BTW I wonder when the first commenters will ask, why the monitors are so big! ;D

[Lys Newcombe]

Honestly, the music and the tone of the narrator's voice scared me - and I was too focused on that to really comprehend the content haha.

Good video, regardless.. Very relevant to my current area of study (y)

[clancyisabum]

Just discovered your channel and this is a great opener. :)

[espejomarkphil]

Technological advancement especially in the business world using Electronic Commerce has become threatening for us in different ways. MLarge media companies are mostly involved giving their data, or information to which stated in the video “force that are quietly getting strength”. Our information are revealed to business industries, those information are the key to make them create more powerful tools, computers, products, services, and others. We are really “Being watch by envious eyes”.

[leokimvideo]

i laugh at the clippy scene in this

[Vladimir Lenin]

cool