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Long Tail Blogging is Dying?

Tony Karrer

Just read an article in the Guardian The long tail of blogging is dying (Found via Donald Clark ). But recently – over the past six months – a new trend: fewer blogs with links, and fewer with any contextual comment. out of the 133m blogs it tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. What about eLearning blogs?

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Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis

Tony Karrer

Adler's recent article - Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 talks about the implications of the Long Tail on Education. Background If you are not familiar with the concept of the Long Tail, head over to take a look at the Long Tail article on Wikipedia.

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The power-law distribution (and you)

eFront

There’s an interesting phenomenon in statistics, that, as those things are known to do, also applies to blogging , business , learning , sales , software development and lots of other things besides. names that refer to its different aspects and characteristics: power law, long tail, 80/20 rule, the Pareto principle, etc.

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Are You Asking the Right Questions at Your Association?

Association eLearning

The following is a guest blog post brought to you by Elizabeth Engel of Spark Consulting and Peter Houstle of Mariner Management. For example: • ASAE asked questions that led them to discover that their publications catalogue did not, as they had assumed, lead to “long tail” sales of older publications. Send via Email.

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Learning, Long Tail, Needs Analysis, Web 2.0, & Creative Thinking

Big Dog, Little Dog

Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape - eLearning Technology. Long tail learning is effectively infinite. 8+ Ways To Train Yourself To Be Creative - John's Blog. There is no way for an individual to keep up much less learning and development.

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2009 Top Posts and Topics

Tony Karrer

It’s interesting at the end of the year to go back through blog posts to see what my Best of 2009 is. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs. I’ll also do a post similar to my post last year 2008 2009 that will look at my 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009.

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The Long Tail backlash, exposing flaws in mainstream media

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

I think for the most part anyone with a small entrepreneurial bone in their body instinctively understands the concept of the long tail. Chris Anderson, the author of The Long Tail, writes this post in response the Wall Street Journal article that tries (unsuccessfully) to tear down the book and the concept. blogs, etc.