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A View From Under the Long Tail
An anonymous reader writes "Here's a funny article by James Boyle in the Financial Times on what it really feels like to be part of the long tail economy." From the article: "Where Amazon's normal customer service seems to be run by suspiciously cheerful MBAs from Stanford, who break off from counting their stock options to write apologies and deliver refunds, 'Amazon Advantage', the ironically named system for selling wares, is clearly based on the last days of the Soviet system. The problem with their representatives is not that their native language is not English, it is that their native planet is not Earth."
The article, which was written by a guy, whose name is James, who shares the first name of a President, who helped create the constituion, which was written a long time ago, which is quite as old as when Communism was envisioned, which we can blame the Greeks for, which make great olive oil, which comes in extra virgin, which covers the majority of the slashdot crowd. . . .
Oh wait, what was I talking about again?
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
It sounds like a Tail of Too Shities!
Amazon... wait, damnit!
Blah blah blah gold standard blah blah
Beware the man of one book.
The road transport system = the new ebay. People could club together to sell things and you could call them -- Oh I don't know -- Markets or Shops....
:) .
Yes but this caters to a very niche market - those who leave the house to buy things
ZK
Time flies like an arrow Fruit flies like a banana
Nonsense. I give up on things because they're difficult all the time!
nobody's ever given up because something was difficult.
This statement sounded suspicious to me, so I tried to think up a counter-example, but after twenty minutes I quit because it was too hard. I guess you were right!
I'd rather be lucky than good.