Thursday, July 22, 2004
Network effects in blogs
A nice paper by Drezner and Farrell, a pair of political scientist bloggers. They find that the ecology of blogs is similar to the web as a whole (a handful of key nodes that readers use to navigate/aggregate info/rate other sites, and bloggers try to get the attention of). But they also find that its a bit more democratic that they web as a whole (incoming links are not quite power law distributed, but log normal).
I wonder how important it is that the overlap between bloggers and blog readers is so great. We're all curious to find new material, so we probably search farther afield than most web users. I'd wager almost all of us are more information consumers than producers, by choice. We also start in a dozen or more places, while most web users probably frequent four sites, tops.
I wonder how important it is that the overlap between bloggers and blog readers is so great. We're all curious to find new material, so we probably search farther afield than most web users. I'd wager almost all of us are more information consumers than producers, by choice. We also start in a dozen or more places, while most web users probably frequent four sites, tops.
