The Long Snout

Had this idea about the long snout and used it in an email to a colleague. That’s cute I thought. Wow is it original?

As Ogden Nash might have said.

It’s always tempting to impute
Unlikely parentage to 'cute'

Found through the remorseless Google that I was out by about 18 months.

Along with reference to various animals possessed of enormous hooters there, at pride of place, was the The Long Snout from O’Reilly himself, identifying the proud father:-

Chris Anderson famously named the long tail-- the idea that in the internet era, success belongs to companies that can address the end of the demand curve that is populated by millions of low-volume products, rather than a small number of high-volume products. Last year, noodling on the long tail concept, Rael Dornfest somewhat waggishly pointed out that there's an analogous phenomenon on the front end of product creation, which he called "the long snout."

Interesting word that, noodling!

Alas
In the age of instant communication
he who hesitates
is a man with a great future
behind him!

Not so much bleeding edge, more….. Now where did I put my glasses.