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The Longtail Rule (aka the 80-20 rule) is everywhere!
http://www.carbongraffiti.com/ notebook/ 2008/ 10/ 03/ the-longtail-rule-aka-the…Ever notice how certain things you do at your day job seem to integrate themselves into your everday life? A perfect example is the Pareto Principle, otherwise known as the 80-20 rule, the Longtail, the Zipf law or the Power Law.
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The opportunity cost of noiselessness
http://www.mattmcalister.com/ blog/ 2008/ 09/ 23/ 240/ the-opportunity-cost-of-n…At minute 4:30 in LCD Soundsystem’s ‘Yr City’s A Sucker‘ a tightly bound harmonic ‘Aaah’ and the shout that arises from beneath it speaks volumes about what the media business often means to people. “What we want is what you want.
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Gridlock Economy
http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/ archives/ 2008/ 08/ gridlock-economyMichael Heller’s new book looks interesting. Heller was, for the last decade, been working to introduce a bit of balance into the discussion down stream from the idea that goes by the name “Tragedy of the Commons.” He originally called his idea “The Tragedy of the Anticommons.” Those who public
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Is Facebook Apps A Fair Platform?
http://zooie.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 06/ 30/ is-facebook-apps-a-fair-platform/Take a look at this stats deck from O’Reilly’s Graphing Social Patterns conference: http://en.oreilly.com/gspeast2008/public/asset/attachment/2950 Fairly in-depth and recent [6/01/2008] analysis of the application usage in Facebook and MySpace. As expected, lots of power law behavior.
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Classroom Blogging - The Year in Stats
http://remoteaccess.typepad.com/ remote_access/ 2008/ 06/ classroom-blogging---t…As the end of the school year approaches, I had the kids in my class collect the stats from their weblogs. I asked them to simply give me the number of posts they had written, and the number of comments they had received.
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Three Power Law Relationships (Techmeme, Twitter, TechCrunch)
http://julianbaldwin.com/ blog/ 2008/ 05/ 27/ three-power-law-relationships-tech…Yuvi from TheStatBot TechCrunch Distribution of Links to Hosts (scroll halfway down the post) CrunchBase Information TechCrunch Information provided by CrunchBase Julian Baldwin The Techmeme Leaderboard Followers Per Twitter User (scroll halfway down the post) CrunchBase Information
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The Techmeme Leaderboard Shows A Power Law Relationship
http://julianbaldwin.com/ blog/ 2008/ 05/ 19/ the-techmeme-leaderboard-shows-a-p…What in the Sam Hill is a power law? A power law is one type of relationship between two variables where few have a lot and a lot have few. It sounds confusing, but it’s not, let me put it into context for this article.
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The Black Swan vs. Power Law
http://achangeinthewind.typepad.com/ achangeinthewind/ 2008/ 05/ the-black-swan.…Much talk this year about Nicholas Taleb's Black Swan. (For short and long -- but remarkably lucid -- discussions of the concept, from a completely non-mathematical perspective, take a look at this excellent introduction from Grumpy Old Bookman.) Most of the coverage of the concept has been laudatory, so it's useful to hear a discouraging word, especially from the great thinker Stewart Brand.
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The Viral Expansion Loop
http://www.twistimage.com/ blog/ archives/ the-viral-expansion-loop/The Viral Expansion Loop April 18, 2008 11:23 PM Posted by Mitch Joel What's the difference between Viral Marketing and something new called the Viral Expansion Loop? "It's a type of engineering alchemy that, done right, almost guarantees a self-replicating, borglike growth: One user becomes two, then four, eight, to a million and beyond.
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The Asymmetry of Uncertainty
http://epistemocrat.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 04/ asymmetry-of-uncertainty.htmlStudying the human condition fascinates me. Above is an interesting clip from Nassim Taleb's recent talk at one of the Long Now Foundation's (click here) seminars on long-term thinking. I suspect that self-deception plays a role in understanding domain dependent skepticism, as Nassim has set out to
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