1 post tagged “culture”

I changed a few things about the blog a week or so ago. Here's why: I believe in the Long Tail . So, the name serves for that, quite nicely. It's a reference to The New Fast Automatic Daffodils who had a song of the same title. Which was a riff on The Pop Group . Which was a situationist name for a band. So, naming my blog that is kind of like a Dennis Miller reference: it just gets more obscure the more you look into it. At the same time, the sentiment is somewhat revolutionary, in a pop culture way, in that "mass" culture, where everyone watches the same TV programs, hears the same Radio programs, and so on, is getting replaced by the infinitely more satisfying "niche" culture. With Netflix bringing us movies on demand, and Amazon stocking everything under the sun, and the rise of Etsy, Ebay, crafting, etc, etc, etc, nothing has to be 'mass" anymore. If long tail economics work (and I think they do) everything can be "bespoke". So, how much longer do we tolerate mass culture, before that detritus is lost to history?