Elsewhere

Use this URL
to stream Billy Corgan’s new solo album (coming out June 21), which is,
incidentally, quite good. Share the URL with your friends and help me
win a couple tickets to his L.A. show next month. And no, I have
absolutely no shame.

WTF is “The Long Tail”? A quick Google search produced this Wired article, from which I quote:

Hit-driven
economics is a creation of an age without enough room to carry
everything for everybody. Not enough shelf space for all the CDs, DVDs,
and games produced. Not enough screens to show all the available
movies. Not enough channels to broadcast all the TV programs, not
enough radio waves to play all the music created, and not enough hours
in the day to squeeze everything out through either of those sets of
slots.

This is the world of scarcity. Now, with online
distribution and retail, we are entering a world of abundance. And the
differences are profound.

The “long tail”
refers to the end of the curve–where the traditional commercial
marketability of a media object is considered quite low, yet it can
still find a healthy following among a niche of geographically
disparate Internet users.