Kevin on Clay
Posted on:: February 17th, 2003
Kevin Marks takes a look at the data Clay uses in his application of power laws to blogs, concluding that “Clay’s paper is correct as far as it goes, but it makes a couple of classic mistakes.”
Kevin’s article is all math-like, with graphs and numbers with six digits to the right of the decimal point, so I was disqualified from understanding it well before the lightning round. But both Kevin and Clay are waaaay smart, so if you’re in their league, you might want to mosey on over.
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My interpretation of Kevin’s graphs:
According to samples taken, there are lots of little weblogs, not so many little newspapers, and hardly any little films. This is due to the cost of publishing.
All the weblogs have a similar number of outgoing links, but some have far more incoming links (the few big weblogs).
This is a power law, apparently, and has surprised the world.
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