Another awesome Long Tail video
My British publisher, Random House, has put together a new site to promote the book in the UK, which includes the above cool video made by Apt Studio in Edinburgh. Those clever Scots have morphed a series of spheres (which symbolize niches) into pie charts, then a powerlaw and then my face. Like this:
It's terrific and I'm totally impressed. The site also has two free sample chapters--the Introduction and Chapter 7, The New Tastemakers--amounting to some 33 pages. Even better, they've released the component graphics and animation files used to make the video under a Creative Commons license so that anyone can use them, misuse them, mess with them or otherwise remix them for any purpose they want. Check it out.
Nice...good choice of publisher Chris :)
Posted by: Mick Stanic | August 11, 2006 at 12:46 AM
Very nice indeed.
Do you think that it's significant that the dots symbolising the long tail are the ones that make up the top of your head? :-)
Posted by: Graham Chastney | August 11, 2006 at 03:51 AM
Eine wirklich super Seite!
Posted by: bodoro | August 11, 2006 at 10:17 AM
Another great video, Chris. What fun.
And can I just say that I love that introduction? Tee hee. Just putting that out there. Best publicity I've ever gotten.
Ben
Posted by: Ben Schwartz | August 12, 2006 at 01:54 PM
Over the last year and in a country like Colombia, underdeveloped but with amazing talent potential, I have been feeling a weird energy pushing up and out in many entertainment topics. I had no idea how to classify it until I met " the long tail ". It's the natural andersonism of such huge talent around....
Posted by: Santos | August 12, 2006 at 06:26 PM