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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. 
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