The Long Tail/Anderson 150-157

150 In a sense, you can think of cities as the Long Tail of urban space in the same way the Internet is the Long Tail of idea space or cultural space.

153 The Google era has opened our eyes to the lucrative virtues of findability.

155 Short Head? The average Wal-Mart now carries around 4,500 unique CD titles (as a point of comparison, Amazon lists about 800,000)

156 Scarcity, bottlenecks, the distortion of distribution, and the tyranny of shelf space all wrapped up in one big store.

157 The efficiency and success of online retail have illuminated the cost of traditional retail’s inflexibility and taxonomical oversimplifications