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The Register has an article on a study on the long tail that puts an additional chink or two in the armor of the popular digital distribution theory.

At Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge, John A. Quelch has a post titled "Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!" Quelch is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Internet Filters: It’s exciting to see filters like this in Facebook and filters on email spam from services from Mailtrust and Gmail that are keeping up with the huge amount of content online.

Anita Elberse, the Harvard Business School professor who recently wrote an article -- "Should You Invest in the Long Tail?" -- that questioned some of the assertions in Chris Anders

The July-August issue of the Harvard Business Review has an article by Anita Elberse of the Harvard Business School that puts a damp academic blanket on the firestorm created by Chris Anderson and his hit book, "The Long Tail." In

The Age has a good primer for the upcoming wave of "free is good" marketing advice. Chris Anderson (author of "The Long Tail") offered a preview of his upcoming book (out early 2009), and The Age article gives a lot of ink to Anderson.

Chris Anderson’s post on LongTail.com contains an observation that is so obvious, it is missed by many self-appointed experts. (Okay, I’ll admit I live in that glass house.):

Magazine quote of the week, no, make that month:

“(Wired magazine is) NOT about technology — we’re about how technology is changing the world.” — Chris Anderson, editor

After a weekend of avoiding endless posts by bloggers pointing to the NY Times story on how blogging can kill you, it was nice to learn* that while it may kill you, blogging can also help you <

As usual, Chris Anderson is a voice of reason when he answers a question that implies magazines will be replaced in a decade or so by something digital that is distributed via a new device. Will it happen in a decade?