Comments on: lack of power laws and other popularity problems http://purplemotes.net/2006/08/20/lack-of-power-laws-and-other-popularity-problems/ a journal of whimsy and hope Mon, 07 May 2012 22:01:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: purple motes » debating the long tail http://purplemotes.net/2006/08/20/lack-of-power-laws-and-other-popularity-problems/#comment-843 purple motes » debating the long tail Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:40:19 +0000 http://purplemotes.net/2006/08/20/lack-of-power-laws-and-other-popularity-problems/#comment-843 [...] well described by a straight line.  Put differently, a power-law distribution typically provides a reasonably good model for the aggregate pattern of choices.   In a comment referring to a graph of Facebook app [...] [...] well described by a straight line.  Put differently, a power-law distribution typically provides a reasonably good model for the aggregate pattern of choices.   In a comment referring to a graph of Facebook app [...]

]]> By: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog http://purplemotes.net/2006/08/20/lack-of-power-laws-and-other-popularity-problems/#comment-842 Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:11:23 +0000 http://purplemotes.net/2006/08/20/lack-of-power-laws-and-other-popularity-problems/#comment-842 <strong>Rough sort...</strong> The following list may continue to lengthen. Newest entry at top. Is illiteracy the new literacy? Berkeley's Dan Perkel writes, in a paper, Cut and Paste Literacy, on MySpace profiles: "A social perspective of literacy helps show that a part of [the]... Rough sort…

The following list may continue to lengthen. Newest entry at top. Is illiteracy the new literacy? Berkeley’s Dan Perkel writes, in a paper, Cut and Paste Literacy, on MySpace profiles: “A social perspective of literacy helps show that a part of [the]…

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