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HitTail blog topic suggestion engine
by Jason Clarke Feb 18th 2007
The concept of the Long Tail describes the phenomenon where the vast majority of statistically less popular items so significantly outweigh the tall head of popular content that there is actually more value to be mined from this "long tail" than the value of the popular items. See the Wikipedia entry for the Long Tail for a much better description. 
Anyway, HitTail is a free web service created by Connors Communications (a PR company that has worked with the likes of IBM, Computer Associates, Creative Labs, RealNetworks, Picasa, and tons more) that aims to take advantage of the long tail of search hits which bring readers to your blog by analyzing and suggesting valuable topics that you could write about in the future. 
I'm not much for my prognostication myself--which is to say that I'm terribly bad at it--but it seems like everyone else in the tech industry can't get enough of it. The 
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
