Comments on: Is Blog Traffic Inequality Evidence of Unfairness?

By: akarra

akarra — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:11:08 +0000

I just want to ask you to talk more about the 80/20 divide vs. the superstar market – is the difference mainly in what the 20 or the superstars get/expect?

By: akarra

akarra — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:11:08 +0000

I just want to ask you to talk more about the 80/20 divide vs. the superstar market – is the difference mainly in what the 20 or the superstars get/expect?

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:35:15 +0000

I think bloggers think blogging is more interesting than it really is. I frequently read bloggers discussing the politics and motivations of the blogosphere as though it were fascinating. Its a bias common to all media though. I've noticed a proliferation of televisions shows about television shows, movies about Hollywood/actors/movies.

By: micahtillman

micahtillman — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:31:31 +0000

Speaking of what people “get” for online activities:

Do you know of anyone who's done an economic analysis of the blogosphere, given that the currency seems to be something like “traffic” or “links”? The way you “pay someone” for something is by posting a link to their site, through which you provide their site traffic.

(The “economic value” of a link is primarily proportional to the amount of traffic it gives rise to for the linked-to site, but other issues like page rank are involved to,. I suppose.)

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Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:06:48 +0000

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