A talk by Chris Anderson at SciFoo (in Google) on whether the long tail a power law distribution or a lognormal distribution.

1. A problem with the Long Tail (Although an amazing number of things are powerlaws, a lot of things aren’t. How can you tell the difference?) (Read the text in the notes panel at the bottom for narration)

2. A powerlaw

3. Shown another way

4. WTF?

5. The Missing Market

6. Source: Morris Rosenthal

9. The problem