around the blogosphere : 11-28

• Monday Inspiration: User Experience Of The Future | Design Showcase, Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine
  The future of innovation is about more than interface, it's about the experience.  These interfaces are simply amazing!

• Brand Noise: Self-Defining Heroes Make the Game
  In short: Guitar Hero works because it allows you to associate with people you perceive as heroes, to interact with them, and to join them in their stardom.  Great piece on the drivers of gaming.
  


• 60 Minutes on Millenials
  Wow, 60 Minutes is VERY OLD!!!  Way to demonstrate just how AARP friendly you are.
  

• Funny Rock Band TV Ad - "T-shirt" by ColdFire88
  These Rockband (the video game) TV spots are hillarious!
  

• There's No Money In The Long Tail of the Blogosphere
  How does the 80/20 rule impact the monetization strategy for the long tail?  Is all of the longtail useless or un-monetizable?  Just as with all generalizations, they are all useless.  Long tail value is all about the quality of the long tail network, and site aggregators bringing them together, not blanket grouping of - everything else.  That's like saying that cable television is useless.  Just because it's not network, doesn't mean there isn't a valuable audience.