Heh. Familiar? :)
Brian
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Date: 11 Feb 2003 20:26:01 -0000
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Subject: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/1740233
Posted by: michael, on 2003-02-11 19:20:16
Topic: media, 93 comments
from the network-effects dept.
[1]scubacuda writes "[2]Clay Shirky has written an [3]excellent
article entitled "Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality." Simply put,
diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality: "A new social
system starts, and seems delightfully free of the elitism and
cliquishness of the existing systems. Then, as the new system grows,
problems of scale set in. Not everyone can participate in every
conversation. Not everyone gets to be heard. Some core group seems
more connected than the rest of us, and so on." A must read for anyone
interested in the statistics, fairness, and power relations of
blogging."
References
1. http://`scubacuda'`at'`iname.com'/
2. http://www.shirky.com/
3. http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html
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