The long tail approach was made popular by Chris Anderson. According to a post on O'Reilly Radar, Rael Dornfest used the long tail to similarly explain what he dubbed as the long snout by saying:
"...there's an analogous phenomenon on the front end of product creation..."
O'Reilly one of the most prominenant publishers of technology related references is going to capitailize on staying on top of 'the long snout' by releasing some of the most recent references as they progress and calling them Rough Cuts. Some of the first titles sound great:
I feel something is better then nothing when it comes to a reference so I think that O'Reilly's rough drafts or Rough Cuts are going to prove helpful.
For other perspectives from the blogosphere on O'Reilly's Rough Cuts check out these posts on MacHELP, BlogZoot and theAdmin.org.
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First off, and this is just opinion, I think O'Reilly are horrible. Okay maybe not all but the flow kind of stinks. To much talking not enough tutorial based writing, compared to books offered up by Peach Pit Press anyway.
A long time ago when first starting out I bought a few O'Reilly books and they just confused me more, maybe today they would be fine. Peach Pit Press releases easy to follow books in my opinion.
The other thing is why even buy a book, everything is online. If I want to read up on Ruby or AJAX I typically just do a search and read everything I can find.
The third is just read the language manual. They all have reference typically on the site or packed into .chm files.
I honestly think buying computer books is a waste of money anymore. Just my opinion though...
Posted by: Jeff | Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at 06:07 PM
You can find everything on the net. But in a book there isa structure.
http://www.test-mall.com/first-aid/
Posted by: Helen | Friday, April 21, 2006 at 07:46 AM