{"id":285,"date":"2005-09-20T08:37:27","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T13:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=285"},"modified":"2024-06-11T13:13:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T20:13:43","slug":"rubiks-cube-of-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Rubik&#8217;s Cube of Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;Long Tail&#8221; toroid gets a booster shot with some <em>very<\/em> interesting news over on BusinessWeek. I had no clue who Tony Li was until I read this article (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/sep2005\/tc20050920_0054_tc024.htm\">link<\/a>), but it&#8217;s obvious that what he and his partners intend to do is partially what I envisioned when I began looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/longtail.typepad.com\/the_long_tail\/\">Chris Anderson<\/a>&#8216;s curves and concluded they looked a bit too static for me. Li and company are looking like catalysts for some important changes. Even if they don&#8217;t succeed at unifying distribution as they intend, the very fact they intend to try is probably going to get some people to sit upright and take notice. That idea isn&#8217;t going away now.<\/p>\n<p>To get caught up on how Mr. Li fits into the toroid concept, you can read my initial &#8220;Long Tail&#8221; post <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?p=265\">here<\/a>. Then read about (and see) some things in an <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.blogs.com\/nwn\/2005\/08\/the_long_tail_o.html\">interview<\/a> with Second Life&#8217;s embedded reporter, Hamlet Linden, over on his blog. And maybe take a peek at a quick <a href=\"http:\/\/slfuturesalon.blogs.com\/second_life_future_salon\/2005\/08\/evolutionary_ta.html\">follow-up<\/a> I wrote on the SL Future Salon blog (which has a nicer <a href=\"http:\/\/slfuturesalon.blogs.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/longtailmorphing.jpg\">image<\/a> I posted showing ancient to early 20th century variations of the Toroid).<\/p>\n<p>The only thing missing is how real products fit into this. That&#8217;s coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;Long Tail&#8221; toroid gets a booster shot with some very interesting news over on BusinessWeek. I had no clue who Tony Li was until I read this article (link), but it&#8217;s obvious that what he and his partners intend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=285\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[123,104],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-marketing","tag-virtualgoods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}