Daniel Romero, a scientist at the Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell University, and HP Labs, just sent me his latest research paper on the online social networks that “truly matter”. His team focused on the Twitter network, analyzing a total of 309,740 users, who on average posted 255 posts, had 85 followers, and followed 80 other users. … Read the rest
I value your feedback. Which is why I have mixed feelings about now requiring registration for all readers who wish to leave a comment. On the Web, registration is friction for anything that’s intended or desired to follow, including comments.… Read the rest
Fred Wilson says blogging is the “realest” work he does:
… Read the restDo You Ever Do Any Real Work? That’s a question I used to get all of the time in the early days of this blog. I don’t get it so much anymore. Because slowly but surely people are wising up to the fact that blogging is work and its a very valuable use of my time…the time and energy I’ve put into this blog for the past five years has built a unique and very sophisticated audience.
I received the letter below from MySpace, and I’m not sure what to make of it. The service is threatening to take away my personal MySpace URL — forever. I’m a huge fan of MySpace’s contribution to the digital self-expression revolution, but this note left me feeling uneasy.… Read the rest
Comment spam on blogs is reaching unprecedented levels of desperation.
As an author and editor of several personal and professional blogs over the past five years, I know that comments used to be completely decipherable as either legitimate feedback or spamdexing.… Read the rest
