Long T(r)ail
Oh dude, this is like dude dude dude dude dude dude dude. I'm getting tired of that word real, real bad.
This is the connection to the Sacramento River Trail which was once the route for the Central Pacific Railroad.
Do you know the fellow Chris Anderson who is the editor for Wired magazine and wrote the book 'The Long Tail' ? It's a book about the rise of the "how to get laid" culture. Not even close.
Okay, there was a book called 'Touching The Void' about a near-death mountain climbing experience. It wasn't very popular and all, but then Jon Krakauer wrote the book Into Thin Air' which was a bestseller. Can you guess what happened? The interest in 'Touching The Void' jumped up, because of Amazon.com recommendations.
As the Anderson fellow tells it:
"This is not just a virtue of online booksellers; it is an example of an entirely new economic model for the media and entertainment industries, one that is just beginning to show its power."
What does this mean? Four things: A) I don't know, B) other stuff, C) good things, and D) a fellow made a presentation for an open source web program called Ruby and used the metaphor of the Transcontinental Railroad and The Long Tail.
So that's the short and boring tale of this picture and the Central Pacific Railroad and Leland Stanford and 'The Long Tail'.
I was thinking, though -- now that the railroad is a walking and biking trail -- I could take pictures of people walking and biking and sell the pictures to them. Because then, people could frame the pictures and put them on the mantlepiece, so that they can prove to their friends that they were actually outside doing things. That's a lot better than the outfit that is renting and sponsoring tours of the trail with Segways.
This is the connection to the Sacramento River Trail which was once the route for the Central Pacific Railroad.
Do you know the fellow Chris Anderson who is the editor for Wired magazine and wrote the book 'The Long Tail' ? It's a book about the rise of the "how to get laid" culture. Not even close.
Okay, there was a book called 'Touching The Void' about a near-death mountain climbing experience. It wasn't very popular and all, but then Jon Krakauer wrote the book Into Thin Air' which was a bestseller. Can you guess what happened? The interest in 'Touching The Void' jumped up, because of Amazon.com recommendations.
As the Anderson fellow tells it:
"This is not just a virtue of online booksellers; it is an example of an entirely new economic model for the media and entertainment industries, one that is just beginning to show its power."
What does this mean? Four things: A) I don't know, B) other stuff, C) good things, and D) a fellow made a presentation for an open source web program called Ruby and used the metaphor of the Transcontinental Railroad and The Long Tail.
So that's the short and boring tale of this picture and the Central Pacific Railroad and Leland Stanford and 'The Long Tail'.
I was thinking, though -- now that the railroad is a walking and biking trail -- I could take pictures of people walking and biking and sell the pictures to them. Because then, people could frame the pictures and put them on the mantlepiece, so that they can prove to their friends that they were actually outside doing things. That's a lot better than the outfit that is renting and sponsoring tours of the trail with Segways.
