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To: LindyBill who wrote (93618)	1/4/2005 12:57:55 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793755

Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality By Dean Recently we noted that more than 25% of internet users now say they read blogs, and that the long-term trends are growing (see below). Some in the comments have noted that most likely a majority of those blog-readers are reading a handful of well-known blogs. I would say that this is almost certainly true. Indeed, almost two years ago this phenomenon was noted in an important article that stil bears reading: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality. shirky.com The data used in the article is out of date. But I see no reason to believe that the trends it noted are anything other than self-evidently true today--or that they won't still be true ten years from now. (Hey what do you know? Economics really is a science after all!) I'd just be add this: I'll bet that a majority of weblog readers read from an easily-identifiable list of a few dozen, but that most of them also have some small and obscure blogs they also read regularly. And that this will not only hold true today, but will also probably hold true in the coming years.