Comments on: And Speaking of Power, Kottke’s Got It http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2005/01/25/and-speaking-of-power-kottkes-got-it/ because technology is just another ecosystem Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:37:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: sogrady http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2005/01/25/and-speaking-of-power-kottkes-got-it/comment-page-1/#comment-364 sogrady Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:25:28 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=295#comment-364 good points all around, Manas. i find, however, that my best sources of information are human filters, either Slashdot style groups or individuals on del.icio.us/furl/etc i know either know/trust or have common interests with. that allows me to filter information pretty successfully. the other point here vis a vis the long tail is the persistence. the blogs have a much longer lifespan that we expect - and posts are often picked days or weeks after their original publish date. keeps it interesting. good points all around, Manas. i find, however, that my best sources of information are human filters, either Slashdot style groups or individuals on del.icio.us/furl/etc i know either know/trust or have common interests with.

that allows me to filter information pretty successfully.

the other point here vis a vis the long tail is the persistence. the blogs have a much longer lifespan that we expect - and posts are often picked days or weeks after their original publish date.

keeps it interesting.

]]> By: Manas Garg http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2005/01/25/and-speaking-of-power-kottkes-got-it/comment-page-1/#comment-363 Manas Garg Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:55:36 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/wp/?p=295#comment-363 This echos with the thought I had two days back, about the long tail of content on web. The gist is like this: I tend to reach the information that is popular. But Going with what is popular has a price. I mostly don't reach what is relevant but not popular. Popularity is a measure of just popularity and not relevance. Popularity merely increases the *chances* of relevance but does not guarentee it. Because popularity of a piece of content, in general, depends on the source of the content, how many people agree with the content, how many people respect the source of the content, popularity of the supporters of the content, the presentation of the content and relevance of the content in the context of overall subject. All this excluding the delibrate attempt to increase content popularity by doing search engine optimization, link exchange, paid promotion etc. So, as you see, relevance of the content is just one of the many factors in determining its popularity. But I reach the content through popularity index. The entire post is at http://manasgarg.blogspot.com/2005/01/long-tail-of-content.html Sometimes I get a feel that blogosphere and folksonomy will change that and provide new structure to patterns of information consumption. And sometimes I feel I am mistaken (considering the spam that we already see here). This echos with the thought I had two days back, about the long tail of content on web. The gist is like this:

I tend to reach the information that is popular. But Going with what is popular has a price. I mostly don’t reach what is relevant but not popular. Popularity is a measure of just popularity and not relevance. Popularity merely increases the *chances* of relevance but does not guarentee it. Because popularity of a piece of content, in general, depends on the source of the content, how many people agree with the content, how many people respect the source of the content, popularity of the supporters of the content, the presentation of the content and relevance of the content in the context of overall subject. All this excluding the delibrate attempt to increase content popularity by doing search engine optimization, link exchange, paid promotion etc. So, as you see, relevance of the content is just one of the many factors in determining its popularity.

But I reach the content through popularity index.

The entire post is at http://manasgarg.blogspot.com/2005/01/long-tail-of-content.html

Sometimes I get a feel that blogosphere and folksonomy will change that and provide new structure to patterns of information consumption. And sometimes I feel I am mistaken (considering the spam that we already see here).

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