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Ramsay on the Long Tail

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[Computer Alchemy] Given the choice, people will migrate towards a much greater variety, and the deal is you've got to make everything available to everybody so that they're not restricted. And if you do, the market for that more esoteric, more specialized stuff is just as big as the market of the mainstream stuff.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

BlogMatrix - Weblog: CEO and chairman of TiVo Michael Ramsay left Silicon Graphics with Jim Barton to found the company in 1997, creating the first digital video recorder (DVR) and changing the way people watch television. TiVo faces tough competition now, but it's trying to move beyond television and become a media server for all digital entertainment, whether it comes in over the Internet or cable-TV lines or anything else.

BlogMatrix - Weblog: ... Topic 2: Exploring effects of entertainment's 'long tail' ... Ramsay: We've discovered exactly the same thing in video. We can measure it. ...

PVRblog | TiVo, ReplayTV, and other PVR news and reviews: Given the choice, people will migrate towards a much greater variety, and the deal is you've got to make everything available to everybody so that they're not restricted. And if you do, the market for that more esoteric, more specialized stuff is just as big as the market of the mainstream stuff.

Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: Since this article, David Gee, the blogger involved has reinstated my comment on his blog and has in fact admitted that HP made a mistake in censoring my comment and has described the deleting of my comment and its subsequent reinstatement as a learning experience in a follow up post. In a post entitled, "Taking it on the Chin, Gee writes, "This was a good learning experience for us and we strive to maintain honest and open communication with our customers. If we are going to use blogging as a legitimate connection between us and our customers, we need to choose either to be in all the way or out. We choose to be in.

Mises Economics Blog: November 2003 Archives: Another three controversies mentioned by David Friedman ("equality," "Marshall, price, utility and cost," "forced savings"), I think, can be defended, but they cannot be supported by Milton Friedman’s quotes (he believes that free market tends to bring more "equality" in the levels of consumption, he is not concerned with microeconomic problems and he wants to cut all taxes, not only levied on capital accumulation). However, it should be clear that any problems that arise are caused by inconsistency of Chicagoeconomists themselves, who often see the ball as a red one (support the free market) and as a blue one at the same time (government intervention is necessary here, because…). See the JLS symposium on the Chicago School.