But, the point I’m making here is more about that pesky front part of the long tail, which is still there, and even though in the aggregate the long end is bigger, in terms of an individual experience, it isn’t necessarily. In other words, while there are doubtless oodles of cool things to get excited about in web 2.0 land, and tens if not hundreds of tools that we all use individually fairly regularly, the ways in which the vast majority of regular old users experience media and entertainment are much more a function of that front part than sometimes we think. In any case, I’m still playing devil’s advocate, just trying to inject a dose of skepticism occasionally into the discussion.

Lots of really really smart people in the world are perfectly happy going to 5 different websites 95% of the time. Let’s see where we are in a year — I’d be surprised if this “rich-getting-richer” traffic allocation to the top sites reverses directions…