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{{a|book review|}}''Edited version of a review first published on LibraryThing 30 September 30 2008''
{{a|book review|}}''Edited version of a review first published on LibraryThing 30 September 30 2008''
It should come as no surprise that the editor of Wired magazine, that bible of all things technological, should be enamoured with the significance of the internet, but even so, only someone totally besotted with it, and apparently unaware of the world beyond it, could have written a book like ''The Long Tail'', being as it is informed so deeply by such a utopian (or dystopian, depending on how you look at it) view.  
It should come as no surprise that the editor of Wired magazine, that bible of all things technological, should be enamoured with the significance of the internet, but even so, only someone totally besotted with it, and apparently unaware of the world beyond it, could have written a book like ''The Long Tail'', being as it is informed so deeply by such a utopian (or dystopian, depending on how you look at it) view.  


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Curate’s egg.
Curate’s egg.
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*[[Reports of our death are an exaggeration]]