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z2003-09-17- Isenberg Power Law Volatility
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last edited by BillSeitz on Aug 13, 2008 10:15 am

notes that one's position in a -based population isn't permanent. Yahoo and Google are permanently popular; they have low Zipf volatility. But my hypothesis is that there's a middle tier of blogs with high Zipf volatility, where a well expressed idea or a funny story or a new factoid can rapidly catapult a blog from #100,000 to #1000, or in rare cases even to #10, in a matter of hours. Some subset of these will stay more popular than they were before, others will drop to that same pre-bubble level. Not unlike .


 



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