long tail

i'm a big believer in the long tail. check out the link on the sidebar. for the tech geeks and/or musicians reading i'm interested to hear what you think. shit, even the consultants may find it interesting, as the long tail challenges a common business principle (the Pareto Principle, named after economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 20% of the population of Italy owned 80% of the land. It has since been applied to many other scenarios, namely music sales, movie sales, theory of constraints, and process management).