The Long Tail

January 17, 2006

10 cool things that got this manuscript out

On the occasion of finishing my manuscript, here are ten things that made it possible:

My wife: Put her life on hold for a year and took the kids on Saturdays.
My team at Wired, who ably ran the show when I ducked out on Fridays to write.
GBN: My friend Peter Schwartz provided the perfect space for brainstorms with...
My writing assistant, Steven Leckart. Helped me think through the chapters, then edited my roughs.
Starbucks: WiFi, power outlets and non-fat lattes. Writing nirvana, as long as you have...
Bose noise-cacelling headphones and...
Rhapsody. The last three chapters were all to Ladytron on repeat.
ActionOutline: Fast, rock solid, web aware and just right for a book-sized outline.
Wikipedia.
This blog. The comments and other feedback here were invaluable. Thank you!

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Comments

Congrats. I look forward to reading it.

Posted by: csven | January 17, 2006 at 05:18 PM

Congratulations Chris and thank you for sharing your journey with us!
Can't wait to read the book soon!

Posted by: Juan Lopez-Valcarcel | January 17, 2006 at 09:52 PM

Congratulations!

Posted by: RobotAdam | January 17, 2006 at 09:53 PM

Congratulations! I'm sure my dad will be thrilled to see he made #3 most useful. I've enjoyed reading these blogs the last few months, and I look forward to reading the full book.

-Ben

Posted by: Ben Schwartz | January 17, 2006 at 10:19 PM

Congratulations!
Hope it will be a blockbuster, even if they are dead

Posted by: Raanan Avidor | January 17, 2006 at 11:19 PM

congrats, only if this doesn't mean the end of this blog!

Posted by: sean coon | January 18, 2006 at 01:09 AM

Hooray! I'm just polishing off Albert-Laszlo Barabasi's Linked so can't wait to see your Manuscript.

Posted by: Teddie | January 18, 2006 at 02:40 AM

Congratulations Chris! We're waiting for the book with great anticipation! On a separate note: Terry Semel made some interesting comments last night on Yahoo's earnings call about user generated content, and even used the phrase "long tail". The full transcript is up on the Internet Stock Blog ( http://internetstockblog.com/ ) and you can quote up to 400 words as long as you link back.

Posted by: David Jackson | January 18, 2006 at 02:41 AM

Hey David, thanks for posting that. Very much appreciated (and now heading off to listen).

Posted by: csven | January 18, 2006 at 07:42 AM

The new Ladytron is my current favorite music for heads-down getting stuff done.

Posted by: jkottke | January 18, 2006 at 09:45 AM

That's awesome! Looking forward to seeing it take up shelf space. :)

Posted by: perfectlyGoodInk | January 18, 2006 at 12:52 PM

Congrats, been looking forward to the book since the early days of the blog.

Posted by: KirkH | January 18, 2006 at 04:04 PM

Congrats! I second Sean's hope that the blog keeps going.

Posted by: David | January 18, 2006 at 04:23 PM

Congratulations on finishing. I'm looking forward to reading it.

Posted by: Kal Ström | January 19, 2006 at 12:15 AM

Very cool. No small feat -- congratulations!

Posted by: TJ Snyder | January 19, 2006 at 04:29 PM

Ladytron! Ladytron!

http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/sterling/index.blog?entry_id=1316065

Posted by: Bruce Sterling | January 20, 2006 at 10:36 AM

Congratulations - I look forward to reading the book

Posted by: Tim Pitt-Payne | January 21, 2006 at 08:46 AM

Just wanted to add to the congrats and the looking forward to reading the book. And definitely keep the blog going.

Posted by: Aaron | January 22, 2006 at 05:52 PM

Congratulations on finishing the book. Really looking forward to reading it.

Posted by: Henrik Torstensson | January 23, 2006 at 11:26 AM

w00t! so when to we get to read it?!

Posted by: pete | January 23, 2006 at 09:08 PM

Hey, did you all listen to the podcast with Chris Anderson at the World Economic Forum:

http://www.forumblog.org/blog/2006/01/podcast_chris_a.html

Posted by: Charbax | January 26, 2006 at 04:22 PM

Chris - I read your article about the new boom in Wired. One suggestion - could you post links to your wired articles on this blog? I read this blog via bloglines and wouldn't have read the article but for a Paul Kedrosky link to it. Thanks, and I can't wait to read the book.

Posted by: Kyle S | January 27, 2006 at 10:03 AM

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A survey, released last week by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), a trade association for the IT industry, based in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., in suburban Chicago, indicates that workers are taking the initiative to get the new training and skills they need for their careers, and that employers, thus far, are not providing guidance as to what skills they want for the future. By Gene Koprowski

Posted by: Ted Smith | January 30, 2006 at 01:10 PM

Congratulation! You are one of my gurus at the moment.

http://lifeinlasne.blogspot.com/2006/01/long-tail.html.

Posted by: Silvana Delatte | January 31, 2006 at 10:16 AM

Way to go! Looking forward to the manuscript...

Posted by: business babe | January 31, 2006 at 11:56 AM

Just curious: Amazon gives the full title to be "The Long Tail : The Radical New Shape of Culture and Commerce" and then the new image of the cover says "The Long Tail: Why the future of business is selling less of more." Which is it, or is it both?

Posted by: Jason C | February 02, 2006 at 07:24 AM

Well, congratulations!

Posted by: Terry Mitchell | February 02, 2006 at 12:15 PM

Congratulations. Considering that there are writers who write on how to achieve independence as a writer and make a full time living out of it, this is achievement indeed.Writing a book is a time consuming and creative and therefore a creditable achievement.

Posted by: Hiren Shah | February 02, 2006 at 11:42 PM

Congrats!

And a question: Is this blog over now?

Posted by: raven | February 06, 2006 at 09:34 AM

I am not a regular blogger, so I have a question that may be stupid-why are there some posts on this blog where it seems I cannot leave a comment-is that up to the blogger?

Posted by: business babe | February 09, 2006 at 06:50 AM

http://poetslife.blogspot.com/2006/02/business-blog-how-to-successfully.html

If you look at the blog in the link above, you will see that I created a non-traditional review of the book "naked conversations" by Robert Scoble and seth Israel to match the non-traditional material they address. If you like my approach, I would like to create this type of review of your work when it is out. Please let me know when that happens. Thanks.

Posted by: Bruce Curley | February 15, 2006 at 06:32 AM