The dark side of the Long Tail

The dark side of the Long Tail
ZDnet finds a racist website sponsored by Zango, which is adware from 180solutions, whose sites says this: “Although 180solutions has come to realize that third-party distribution can be hard to police, we believe it is possible to properly balance who we do business with while providing monetization methods for the long-tail of web publishers and content developers.” As I’ve said before, the Long Tail is messy and has a large dynamic range of quality. That means bad comes along with the good. Fortunately we’ve got better and better filters to screen it out.