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Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality

18 October 2004

Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality. This is a very interesting article discussing the apparent fact that when a society can freely choose among a large number of options, the choices can be modeled by a power-law distribution—whereby a very small number of the options are selected in a hugely disproportionate manner.

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