Clay‘s latest piece on power law distributions in personal publishing has had plenty of commentary and criticism over the weekend, but there’s some very interesting commentary over at the top of the zipf-curve on a post of Kottke’s on the same subject. Eric‘s been plotting the stats on interlinking within the iaWiki, and found the power law staring back at him. Matt Haughey speculates thusly:
“I wonder stats from a very large, dispersed wiki (like wikipedia) would follow the same curve. If so, that’d be really interesting, since it would seem with the content at wikipedia, it should be equally important stuff (if you assume the authors on all subjects were a similar level of experts).”
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