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Thinking, Instructional Design, PWLE, Manufacturing, & Google

Big Dog, Little Dog

Another web idea dismantled by Keen is the concept of the "long tail" - the slow but gradual accumulation of sales by niche products such as books that could never have commanded shelf space in shops but can wait for buyers to find them on Amazon. Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - eLearning Technology.

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Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis

Tony Karrer

If you think about the Long Tail graph, it works just as well when we substitute Attention instead of Sales. As a quick example, we choose our preferred search engine in large part because we feel it will be the best investment of time to find the best quality information.

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