I will be creating a website to support the research I have been doing on the Harlem chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).  I have been doing oral history interviews with ex-members and searching for documentation  regarding their stories.

This research is a big part of my M.A. thesis and my future PhD work.

I have already started building the site – http://www.harlemcore.com

For now, it will have a general history of the organization and many of the documents (and photos) that I have been able to find over the last year and a half.

-EJ

… thought this article might be of interest since it pertains to our discussion in the last class…

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/19/google.books/index.html

… and again in the NY Times…

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/technology/internet/19google.html?_r=1&hpw

-EJ

I like what Anderson has to say in “The Long Tail” and agree with his theory (which reminded me of how Bush spoke about specialization and trails formed by associations of ideas/thoughts).

I have personally witnessed the growth of niche markets in the music industry and success stories that would not have been possible before the year 2000.

Even though the music industry has found a way to make money through sales over the Internet,  sales are still way down from years prior, a trend happening well before the present economic crisis.

Does this mean that The “Long Tail” theory does not  necessarily work for  the music industry but it may for other media industries?  Have media industries that rely more on advertising than sales for profits do any better or worse since this article was written?

-EJ  (del.icio.us name – ejnyc)