Chris Anderson’s Long Tail is a Wonderful Book --- and He Sure Knows How to Party!

Above are some of the attendees at last night's The Long Tail book party

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Congratulations to Chris Anderson, editor in chief of WIRED magazine on the publication of the long anticipated book The Long Tail. After reading the blog of the same name for so many months, it’s great to finally see Chris’ vision in print. 

We find Chris’ book very inspiring: He tells us the metrics of success in business and culture have completely changed from the notion of blockbusters to the ascendance of quality, niche, and even amateurish endeavors. Sounds like our little Beet.TV vlog! 

Here's an interesting take on the book and the party from CNET.

(Chris was also celebrating a huge development for the online presence of Wired’s publisher Condé Nast. The company announced Tuesday that it has bought Wired News from Lycos for $25. Wired magazine and Wired News were previously separate entities.) 

It was quite a groovy shindig last night at the Tribeca Cinemas in lower Manhattan.The stars of the blogosphere, publishing, music and art industries were out in force. We shot some tape of the luminaries, including David Byrne of the Talking Heads, super blogger Nick Denton, Gawker founding editor Elizabeth Spiers, who authors the new and wonderful DealBreaker blog, and Chris Anderson, of course.

Unfortunately we had to leave before the entertainment began to, yes, download, edit and update our vlog. We heard that the party raged late into the night with awesome performances by the Brazilian Girls, James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem/DFA), Spank Rock and Aloe Blacc. Wow! 

-- Andy Plesser 

(Coming Clean: WIRED is a former client of Plesser Holland, publisher of Beet.TV)

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