Living at the end of the Long Tail…
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YouTube suggests that under 30% of its videos account for over 99% of it’s traffic. (The reigning champ: Justin Bieber’s “Baby, featuring Ludacris,” with 598,457,143 views… and counting…)
But what of the rest? Readers need no longer wonder. Dadabot “randomly finds the least viewed videos on YouTube (for better or worse).” Just click on over for selections that range from the poignant through the pointless to the putrid…
[TotH to Presurfer]
As we sit, transfixed, we might wish a responsive Happy Birthday to the Russian physiologist and psychologist Ivan Pavlov; he was born on this date in 1849. Pavlov’s experiments with animals (most famously, with dogs) led him to develop the concept of the conditioned (or conditional) reflex (a specific behavioral response to a specific stimulus), and laid the foundation for Behaviorism.
(Lest readers think Thomas Pynchon’s imagination overheated, it is now known that Pavlov’s experimental “animals” included human children.)
Pavlov’s 1904 Nobel Prize portrait (source)