Comments on: The Three Laws of The Long Tail of Pain http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/the-three-laws-of-the-long-tail-of-pain/ Gaurav Mishra's Weblog on Marketing, Technology & Social Media Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:00:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Open Relationships and the Long Tail of Pain | Gauravonomics Blog http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/the-three-laws-of-the-long-tail-of-pain/#comment-7228 Open Relationships and the Long Tail of Pain | Gauravonomics Blog Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:09:14 +0000 http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/the-three-laws-of-the-long-tail-of-pain/#comment-7228 [...] feel for Chris and Tara because I have felt their pain firsthand and my post on ‘The Long Tail of Pain’ came out of a very public, very painful breakup [...]

[…] feel for Chris and Tara because I have felt their pain firsthand and my post on ‘The Long Tail of Pain’ came out of a very public, very painful breakup […]

]]> By: Sanjeev http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/the-three-laws-of-the-long-tail-of-pain/#comment-5508 Sanjeev Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:07:17 +0000 http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/the-three-laws-of-the-long-tail-of-pain/#comment-5508 Question is does she find the blushing ...how shall I say it...cute? :) Question is does she find the blushing …how shall I say it…cute? :)

]]> By: Gaurav http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/the-three-laws-of-the-long-tail-of-pain/#comment-5494 Gaurav Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:45:10 +0000 http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/the-three-laws-of-the-long-tail-of-pain/#comment-5494 @<a href="http://tastymorselsoflife.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Sanjeev</a>: I'm totally blushing now. :D [quote comment="5493"]Brilliant stuff, Gaurav. I think this beats any fundaes that Steven Dubner or Scott Adams regularly come up with at their blogs. Poignant, creative, witty and funny - all at the same time![/quote] @<a href="http://managementchords.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Sampad</a>: Is the Long Tail relevant for India? Of course, yes. But more in a culture context than in a commerce context. All our blogs are part of the long tail of popular culture in India. Is it easy to monetize the Long Tail in India? Not yet, but it's difficult everywhere to make money 'in' the Long Tail; it's much easier to make money 'on' the Long Tail (<a href="http://www.copyblogger.com/long-tail-myth/" rel="nofollow">CopyBlogger</a>). So, India will form part of the Long Tail for Google in terms of its AdSense revenues. Finally, I think social media cuts both ways -- it can both increase or decrease the half life of your relationship -- increase by making it difficult for you to extricate yourself from a broken relationship and decrease by making it possible for you to have a series of (broken :D) relationships. But, if you think about it, it lengthens the Long Tail of Pain even in the second case -- except that, here, the pain is spread over multiple partners. @<a href="http://krishashok.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">KrishAshok</a>: Well, 'girlfriend showing signs of wanting to break up' will probably be a prequel to the Long Tail of Pain, no? [quote comment="5138"]Lovely. Additionally, I would have liked to see a first stage that says "Girlfriend shows indications of wanting to break up"[/quote] @<a href="http://dinamehta.com/blog/2007/11/19/variations-on-a-theme-the-long-tail-of-pain/" rel="nofollow">Dina</a>/ @<a href="http://www.blogworks.in/blog/blogs_social_media/linking_to_gaurav_misras_crazy.php" rel="nofollow">Rajesh</a>/ @<a href="http://www.desipundit.com/2007/11/19/the-long-tail-of-pain/" rel="nofollow">Patrix</a>/ @<a href="http://shallowthoughts00.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">TGFI</a>/ @<a href="http://calamur.org/gargi" rel="nofollow">Harini</a>/ other people who commented/ e-mailed to say how 'funny' and 'clever' it was: Well, I didn't intend it to be either and I hope it's a little more than that, but many thanks nevertheless. @Sanjeev: I’m totally blushing now. :D

[quote comment=”5493″]Brilliant stuff, Gaurav. I think this beats any fundaes that Steven Dubner or Scott Adams regularly come up with at their blogs. Poignant, creative, witty and funny - all at the same time![/quote]

@Sampad: Is the Long Tail relevant for India? Of course, yes. But more in a culture context than in a commerce context. All our blogs are part of the long tail of popular culture in India.

Is it easy to monetize the Long Tail in India? Not yet, but it’s difficult everywhere to make money ‘in’ the Long Tail; it’s much easier to make money ‘on’ the Long Tail (CopyBlogger). So, India will form part of the Long Tail for Google in terms of its AdSense revenues.

Finally, I think social media cuts both ways — it can both increase or decrease the half life of your relationship — increase by making it difficult for you to extricate yourself from a broken relationship and decrease by making it possible for you to have a series of (broken :D) relationships. But, if you think about it, it lengthens the Long Tail of Pain even in the second case — except that, here, the pain is spread over multiple partners.

@KrishAshok: Well, ‘girlfriend showing signs of wanting to break up’ will probably be a prequel to the Long Tail of Pain, no?

[quote comment=”5138″]Lovely. Additionally, I would have liked to see a first stage that says “Girlfriend shows indications of wanting to break up”[/quote]

@Dina/ @Rajesh/ @Patrix/ @TGFI/ @Harini/ other people who commented/ e-mailed to say how ‘funny’ and ‘clever’ it was: Well, I didn’t intend it to be either and I hope it’s a little more than that, but many thanks nevertheless.

]]> By: Sanjeev http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/the-three-laws-of-the-long-tail-of-pain/#comment-5493 Sanjeev Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:54:27 +0000 http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/the-three-laws-of-the-long-tail-of-pain/#comment-5493 Brilliant stuff, Gaurav. I think this beats any fundaes that Steven Dubner or Scott Adams regularly come up with at their blogs. Poignant, creative, witty and funny - all at the same time! Sampad: You can make all the 'beautiful friends' through SN sites that you want..but I doubt it fills in the void that love leaves behind. -- Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. - Shinichi Suzuki Brilliant stuff, Gaurav. I think this beats any fundaes that Steven Dubner or Scott Adams regularly come up with at their blogs.

Poignant, creative, witty and funny - all at the same time!

Sampad: You can make all the ‘beautiful friends’ through SN sites that you want..but I doubt it fills in the void that love leaves behind.

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Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. - Shinichi Suzuki

]]> By: Sampad Swain http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/the-three-laws-of-the-long-tail-of-pain/#comment-5481 Sampad Swain Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:06:01 +0000 http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/the-three-laws-of-the-long-tail-of-pain/#comment-5481 Nice one Gaurav, Well put forward... But want to ask you 2 questions regarding the topic: 1. Do you really think the "The Long Tail" paradigm somehow affects our lives in India (as of now) where only about 2-5% (approx) biz depends on web? 2. Secondly, the three laws are quite funny and insightful, I must say. But since you are trying to pull "Social Media" into the picture, don't you think that the "Lifespan of these sort of memories of seeing your EX is short lived" and also somehow I feel it is balanced by other beautiful friends that you may found in SN sites? So what's your take on that? Nice one Gaurav, Well put forward…
But want to ask you 2 questions regarding the topic:

1. Do you really think the “The Long Tail” paradigm somehow affects our lives in India (as of now) where only about 2-5% (approx) biz depends on web?

2. Secondly, the three laws are quite funny and insightful, I must say. But since you are trying to pull “Social Media” into the picture, don’t you think that the “Lifespan of these sort of memories of seeing your EX is short lived” and also somehow I feel it is balanced by other beautiful friends that you may found in SN sites?

So what’s your take on that?

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