Tuesday, February 11, 2003

Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality 

Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
The MediaPosted by michael on Tuesday February 11, @02:20PM
from the network-effects dept.
scubacuda writes "Clay Shirky has written an 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."

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