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Earnest Eknath
Enjoyed your post.
here is another post from the past on chatrooms
http://satya.sulekha.com/blog/post/1999/06/sonia-gandhi-in-a-late-night-chatroom.htm
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Free Black Swans with Long Tails (Part 2)
Tarun,
interesting series of posts. I read the long tail few months back and also Taleb's "Fouled by Randomness".
On long tail Unless the biz has a huge audience base where all sorts of visitors with huge varity of visitors it is difficult to sustain the long tail. So a long tail helps a Apple itunes it does not help a sulekha. The tail vanishes and sometimes it never reforms
for e.g here your blog post is part of a long tail ( judging by the views and comments it is getting as opposed to a B. S. Kesav's post). After some time if you dont receive the right responses you move on. and this affects Sulekha. There is constant churn of bloggers and the readers stick to the top 10 or those that are featured. The challenge in a ecommerce site is ultimately you need to fulfill the orders so you need access to the stock.
The chalenge a biz. faces with long tails is how to you identify potential winners in the long tail. for e.g the sulekha editorial team needs to feature 10 out of 100's of posts. Would they pick this post. The need to over a period of time convert the long tail items to reasonable sellers. this is a chellenge.
Another interesting point to me in the Fouled by randomness book was "One learns only by their own mistakes" . In recent times this book was one of the most interesting books I ever read.
Waiting for your next post
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What were you doing on June 25th 1983?
I was a 15 year old @ that time and listening to the commentry on a old Murphy 2 in 1 player along with my dad tuned in to BBC in SW.
I vaguely remember how the mood changed from being excited when srikanth was batting to disappointment at the low score of 183.
After the india innings my dad was so disappointed with the score he went to bed and wanted me to switch off the radio I was keeping volume very low and ears to the radio.
Suddenly wickets where falling and excitement growing. I woke up my dad.
We listened with disbelief the final moments of the game. It still is along with early morning 4.30 AM starts of the B & H cricket where I waited for our neighbour to open the door so I can watch, if you are late by a few minutes then you would miss srikanth;s batting..., some of the most memorable moments of cricket.
Even if the team wins now I am not sure it would match those moments... because then it was a dream, there was no hope for india to win...now a days we expect the team to win thanks to pepsi and hyped players.
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