The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:13:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Social scientists discover link economy. http://www.theawl.com/2009/04/social-scientists-discover-link-economy http://www.theawl.com/2009/04/social-scientists-discover-link-economy#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:13:29 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2009/04/social-scientists-discover-link-economy The Economist takes note of a study entitled "Blogs and the Economics of Reciprocal Attention." Here's the abstract:
We argue in this paper that attention to one's blog is won by paying attention to other bloggers. We derive properties of blogging networks from a model where bloggers trade attention and content. The predictions from the model are then checked against a novel dataset from LiveJournal, a major blogging community. As predicted, the activity of bloggers is found to be related to the size and level of reciprocity within a blogger's relational network. We also find that bloggers who do not adhere to reciprocity norms are sanctioned with a lower number of readers.
In the future, all important research will use LiveJournal as its main dataset, so, I guess, enjoy it while it's still novel. Also, you know, ugh.

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]]> The Economist takes note of a study entitled "Blogs and the Economics of Reciprocal Attention." Here's the abstract:
We argue in this paper that attention to one's blog is won by paying attention to other bloggers. We derive properties of blogging networks from a model where bloggers trade attention and content. The predictions from the model are then checked against a novel dataset from LiveJournal, a major blogging community. As predicted, the activity of bloggers is found to be related to the size and level of reciprocity within a blogger's relational network. We also find that bloggers who do not adhere to reciprocity norms are sanctioned with a lower number of readers.
In the future, all important research will use LiveJournal as its main dataset, so, I guess, enjoy it while it's still novel. Also, you know, ugh.

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