Vin Crosbie: "Mass Media are wonderful at satisfying the very few common interests. Those practices are so-so at satisfying group interests … But they are frankly lousy at satisfying very specific interests."

"The NY Post reports that Ashley Alexandra Dupre has sold more than 300,000 digital downloads via online music store Amie Street, and says Ashley has netted more than $200,000. That’s not true."

Jeff Back of Quietwater Films writes to Chris Anderson: "Your Long Tail theory is a basic and profound truth that I happily embrace AS A CONSUMER. But as a producer and creator of Long Tail content it is basically spelling out my doom."

Dan Kennedy: "Does Lou Ureneck really think the little guys whose ads have popped up on his Web site about fishing in Greece would otherwise be taking out ads in newspapers?"

"One of the questions I get most often is how I apply the Long Tail strategy to my day job of running Wired…:

Murdoch in Forbes: "Media companies don’t control the conversation anymore, at least not to the extent that we once did."

Seamus McCauley: "The idea of a participative, read/write web2.0 is a myth - that most people simply aren’t contributing, just consuming."