promote thy brother
Have I mentioned recently that my brother is a world-famous mountain climber? A photojournalist has provided pictures of my brother’s recent Denali expedition. Fearless Internauts, follow this expedition!
get off the couch
The Anti-Humbaba Action Coalition has staged a few small and futile protests outside DC art establishments. Walking in ragged figures while holding poorly drawn signs, they chanted: 2-4-6-8 what do we want to liberate? Art Art Art in action, art in use hanging on walls, ain’t no excuse! Apparently disgruntled handicraft workers, they’re easy to [...]
Tagged: review
lack of power laws and other popularity problems
Discussion of tails and popularity seems to be maturing into more comprehensive considerations. Folks aiming for uber-geek status might chat about the difference between power laws and log-normal distributions. This difference has similar consequences to the difference between non-stationary and stationary macroeconomic time series. If those terms are obscure to you, you might just chat [...]
Tagged: content, given names
more discussion about tail size
Once again men are heatedly discussing tail size. Just ponder this queston: How large is the long tail? Personally, I’m going to keep looking before I decide for myself. While it’s novel to bring mathematical precision to such matters, unfortunately it seems to me that this mathematical model focuses attention on misleading features. The model [...]
Tagged: content, given names
growth of Internet traffic in Japan
Good, large-sample data on Internet traffic is hard to find. However, an excellent study of Internet traffic in Japan [Cho et. al. (2006)] describes 42% of Japanese (public) Internet traffic for six one-month observations spanning Sept. 2004 to May 2006. This study reports many important facts. The ratio of bytes sent to residential customers to [...]
Tagged: broadband, Japan
Carnival of the Bureaucrats #1
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Carnival of the Bureaucrats! The best entry in this edition has been unanimously judged to be Foreign Policy’s photo essay, The State at Work. An appropriately selective quotation from its first page: Civil servants are asked to do the people’s work with very little, sometimes with nothing at [...]
false copyright and false authors’ rights claims
The Internet enables sharing the intelligence and creativity of persons around the globe. Along with this exciting new set of possibilities is a little recognized shadow: the increased opportunity cost of false copyright and false authors’ rights claims. In his insightful article, Jason Mazzone examines the problem of false copyright claims with respect to U.S. [...]
Tour de Frolorado Rocked By Scandal
By Mike Schiavo, Cycling News Special Report JAVA SHACK (Arlington, VA) – The final results of the Tour de Frolorado were thrown into chaos today when the unorthodox training methods of GC winner Taxman were unearthed by a team of Cycling News investigative reporters. After a thorough examination of the winner’s training records, our reporters [...]