links for 2007-01-01

“Within hours of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s hasty execution at the hands of masked hangmen, amateur cameraphone clips taken by eyewitnesses joined television feeds of the event on video distribution sites YouTube and Google Video.”

Abe Burmeister argues that “the long tail is one of the more misleading pieces of rhetoric around” because Chris Anderson’s work ignores the radical inequality of power between large and small online publishers.