20070717 The perversion of popularity ranks

A couple of years ago, when digg was launched and wasn’t anywhere as popular as now, it was quite interesting to have a look there. It was more or less like an assortment of random stuff, quite oriented towards technical matters, so was an easy way of reading different things without having to jump from [...]

20060920 The pattern in democratic news communities

I have noticed an increased number of articles with the only aim of being featured at a big site and getting traffic to them (and thus people clicking in their banners). Usually the titles match one of the following patterns: Top (number) (things | for doing something). Examples: top 10 tips for becoming a better [...]