When I posted Advertising to the Community: Is PageRank a Good Model for Social Media? a couple of days ago, I was working in a vacuum. I was responding to some degree to the infamous BusinessWeek article, and to the comments Matt Rhodes made on the idea of PageRank being used to rate social media [...]
Followers, hit-counts, and the Attention Economy
In: Commentary
8 Aug 2008Since I migrated the blog back to my own servers a few days ago, I have realized something: I have fallen back to my old habit of watching the hit count.
This is weird, considering the lack of interest I had in my blog and its stats over the last year or so. But having my [...]