Sep 072006

The Sydney Morning Herald reports the sad news that the internet has grown up:

Sex and pornography have been trounced by business and e-commerce as the most popular internet search topics, new research shows.
In their mid-90s heyday, sex-related topics accounted for 17 per cent of web searches, but that figure has shrunk to an unsexy 3.8 per cent, Queensland University of …read the rest of this article

Aug 162006
The two-minute tail

It’s taken me six weeks, shamefully enough, but I have finally read Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail. Here’s a very quick precis of the main idea for anyone just released from a Chinese prison:
The internet makes it possible for retailers to increase their available stock almost indefinitely. For example, Amazon stocks 3.7mn titles whereas the largest traditional book stores keep …read the rest of this article

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Social tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards until it's all over document some of the more interesting parts of that change. Written by Ian Delaney. More here...

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