Chris Anderson posts an old Calvin and Hobbes comic in which Bill Watterston anticipated the Long Tail. Google the grocery, eh?

This makes me wonder what would happen if the big telco ISPs that are spending so much effort gaming the legal system to prevent net neutrality instead spent the same effort doing local market aggregators and filters they could sell as value added services. After all, they own the last mile. Who better to do that?

-jsq