Comments on: "The Long Tail Works!", reports Tail http://www.marathonpacks.com/2009/01/long-tail-works-reports-tail/ someone warn the plains! Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:29:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: BMIML http://www.marathonpacks.com/2009/01/long-tail-works-reports-tail/comment-page-1/#comment-2288 BMIML Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:27:00 +0000 http://174.132.200.226/~marathon/mpax/2009/01/the-long-tail-works-reports-tail.html#comment-2288 I participated in a panel sponsored by the Grammys last summer here in Philly and one of the things I was asked by the moderator was how aspiring artists might succeed in new media. My advice? Be famous already.<br/><br/>The only people who believe in the Long Tail are people whose (a. job depends on it or, b.) think that the overall fragmentation/atomization of culture is a win for independent anything. Worse? A lot of those people are smart and nice, but have no idea what it's like to try to introduce a band like No Age to an audience that doesn't already have some idea who they are. I participated in a panel sponsored by the Grammys last summer here in Philly and one of the things I was asked by the moderator was how aspiring artists might succeed in new media. My advice? Be famous already.

The only people who believe in the Long Tail are people whose (a. job depends on it or, b.) think that the overall fragmentation/atomization of culture is a win for independent anything. Worse? A lot of those people are smart and nice, but have no idea what it’s like to try to introduce a band like No Age to an audience that doesn’t already have some idea who they are.

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