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Social networks by example

A bit of context for the previous post: Let’s use Dave Winer’s scripting.com as an example. By looking at the social network of scripting.com, we see that Dave has a slew of people who read him, and also that he reads a number of other weblogs. These are Dave’s “social ties,” or the individuals that [...]

Weblogs and adopter categories

The traditional assessment of the dissemination of information assumes that people fall into adopter categories. These classes of innovativeness have become popular parts of our vernacular: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority and laggards. My analysis of the blogdex data has shown that webloggers do fall into such neat buckets. over the course of [...]