Blogs to Riches - The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom -- New York Magazine

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Found a fun article on the social inequities of blogging, or perhaps that should be the apparent boundaries of a limitless medium!

Happy reading...

Blogs to Riches - The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom -- New York Magazine: "It’s as if there were an A-list of a few extremely lucky, well-trafficked blogs—then hordes of people stuck on the B-list or C-list, also-rans who can’t figure out why their audiences stay so comparatively puny no matter how hard they work. “It just seems like it’s a big in-party,” one blogger complained to me. (Indeed, a couple of pranksters last spring started a joke site called Blogebrity and posted actual lists of the blogs they figured were A-, B-, and C-level famous.)

That’s a lot of inequality for a supposedly democratic medium. Not long ago, Clay Shirky, an instructor at New York University, became interested in this phenomenon—and argued that there is a scientific explanation. Shirky specializes in the social dynamics of the Internet, including “network theory”: a mathematical model of how information travels inside groups of loosely connected people, such as users of the Web."

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