In the Overstated weblog (great name, by the way), Cameron Marlow suggests that blogrolls are proxies for popularity while links directly from a blog post to a permalink of another blog are proxies for influence. For example, slashdot is popular in blogrolls but Joi Ito is popular to link to in posts. Marlow does […]
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overstated: Weblogs and authority
Published by September 14th, 2004 in Blogging and Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science. 0 CommentsJeremy Wagstaff’s LOOSE wire: Blogs And The Suppression Of Dissent
Published by September 9th, 2004 in Blogging and Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science. 1 CommentJeremy Wagstaff, after giving a fairly in-depth summary of my informational cascades article, responds with the following counterpoint:
On the other hand, there’s also plenty of evidence to suggest blogs foster a healthy discussion and if someone says something controversial, it’s likely to be challenged. It’s not always easy to see your words criticised on the […]
Weblog Audience-Building and the Strength of Weak Ties
Published by September 9th, 2004 in Blogging, Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management, Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science and Notable Posts. 1 CommentOne of the challenges you face when you start a new weblog is attracting an audience. Who is going to gather the pearls of wisdom that you offer to the world? It’s not that hard these days to find somebody you know who already has a weblog and would be willing to link to you; […]
Weblogs Can Harm Business and Political Decision-Making
Published by September 7th, 2004 in Blogging and Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science. 0 CommentsLooks like I’m almost famous. Yahoo! Financial News picked up the press release from my eLearn article (with a title that’s even more sensational than the one we picked for the front-page column, I might add).
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Correction on the Origins of Informational Cascade Research
Published by September 4th, 2004 in Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science and Books I Like. 0 CommentsI was mistaken in an earlier post when I claimed that informational cascades research comes from the “heuristics and biases approach” in psychology. It definitely comes from behavioral economics.
Both behavioral economics and the heuristics and biases approach share common ancestry from the work of Herbert Simon. A genuine polymath, Simon won a Nobel Prize in […]
