My American Idol vblog and “the long tail” effect
Back in August, I video blogged the American Idol Season 8 Auditions right here in Kansas City. Last night on Fox, American Idol aired it’s first episode for the new season and I’ve noticed in the past week that traffic to my photos and video blog have sparked since the show has started.
What’s interesting to notice is a concept in motion that Chris Anderson from Wired published in October of 2004, that is “the long tail”. While my video blogs may not be a direct representation of his concept — it is in the sense of a content niche long tail. This “long tail” concept may sound like just jibber, jaber — so to make sense of it read this white paper by Chris you need to, it’s worth your time.
Meanwhile, you can relive the video blog I published last year. I’m curious myself if anyone I shot in the video will make it through to any of the later rounds! Guess we’ll just have to wait and see… 
My audio blog of the event:
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Ahh I read a bunch of biznass about the Long Tail and the guy Chris (I think that’s his name) who wrote it for some job interview a while back!! Crazzzy… and ps totally dug it. Hope you’re doing well!
Now I know why there are so many bugs in our new system – it’s because you’ve been blogging your little heart out about AI instead of making sure we can save our carts for more than 48 hours. Ha!
Sammye