The Long Tale

T-P was the nomenclature as I recall for a turning point in the flight management system on either the Airbus or Boeing ~ I can't remember which ~ and that's where we find ourselves around about now. We were all upset at being ripped off by Faulty Towers last month, but you have to choose your battles and mine won't be with Vulture Capitalists who've more experience than I have at screwing people over... so let's move on.

But I look at the stats pertaining to the website, and the message coming over loud and clear is "Your inventions suck." The one visit the website got this month was mine, and how sad is that?

In contrast the blog has risen like Dr Frankenstein's monster and now leads a life of its own (see below), whether I feed it or not. Bizarrely too, there aren't many more visits to each of its individual posts either... though there are exceptions featuring 'one-offs' like aircraft crash analyses that garner 1000's of views in days.

But that's not what we're about, is it? And so the question arises as to where all of those views come from and 'bots aside I think it's from a modern phenomenon in the form of the 'long tail', which broadly speaking says that much revenue accrues to platforms from a back-catalogue that consists of sales here-and-there which together amount to more than the occasional best-seller.

So let's run with it and see where it takes us, shall we?