http://www.zeusjones.com/blog/2007/the-taste-of-crowds/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.zeusjones.com/blog/2007/the-taste-of-crowds/#comment-57 Planner Reads » Blog Archive » You are not a gadget. Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:56:39 +0000 http://zeusjones.sierrabravo.net/blog/?p=101#comment-57 [...] couldn’t agree more with this, many of the basic building blocks of the Web like Pagerank and popularity favour mainstream information that’s less likely to be really new or innov.... In addition the increasingly digital nature of our communication is eliminating a lot of the [...] [...] couldn’t agree more with this, many of the basic building blocks of the Web like Pagerank and popularity favour mainstream information that’s less likely to be really new or innov…. In addition the increasingly digital nature of our communication is eliminating a lot of the [...]

]]> http://www.zeusjones.com/blog/2007/the-taste-of-crowds/#comment-56 You are not a gadget. | From The Head Of Zeus Jones Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:09:34 +0000 http://zeusjones.sierrabravo.net/blog/?p=101#comment-56 [...] couldn’t agree more with this, many of the basic building blocks of the Web like Pagerank and popularity favour mainstream information that’s less likely to be really new or i.... In addition the increasingly digital nature of our communication is eliminating a lot of the [...] [...] couldn’t agree more with this, many of the basic building blocks of the Web like Pagerank and popularity favour mainstream information that’s less likely to be really new or i…. In addition the increasingly digital nature of our communication is eliminating a lot of the [...]

]]> http://www.zeusjones.com/blog/2007/the-taste-of-crowds/#comment-55 Measurements of engagement aren’t necessarily measurements of interest. | From The Head Of Zeus Jones Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:56:25 +0000 http://zeusjones.sierrabravo.net/blog/?p=101#comment-55 [...] is a cousin to the popularity problem that I wrote about before and which Noah wrote about this weekend. There are structures that the we [...] [...] is a cousin to the popularity problem that I wrote about before and which Noah wrote about this weekend. There are structures that the we [...]

]]> http://www.zeusjones.com/blog/2007/the-taste-of-crowds/#comment-54 Zeus Jones Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:13:00 +0000 http://zeusjones.sierrabravo.net/blog/?p=101#comment-54 There ought to be a way to create an algorithm that only surfaces the stuff in the tails. It would provide endless amusement because it would let you sample the best and worst we can create. I think there's a business here for an enterprising web 2.0 entrepreneur. There ought to be a way to create an algorithm that only surfaces the stuff in the tails. It would provide endless amusement because it would let you sample the best and worst we can create. I think there’s a business here for an enterprising web 2.0 entrepreneur.

]]> http://www.zeusjones.com/blog/2007/the-taste-of-crowds/#comment-53 Mnels Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:50:00 +0000 http://zeusjones.sierrabravo.net/blog/?p=101#comment-53 This thought reminds me of the engaging argument made By Nassim Taleb in "The Black Swan". He refers to inference by the bell curve as "the great intellectual fraud" (GIF), because of the curve's inability to represent the real significance of large deviations (the tails of the curve). It's the stuff in the tails, the "Black Swans", that truly matter. This book is worth a look if you haven't seen it. The more I grasp how truly "uncertain" or undpredictable the world is, the more hopeful I am of our industry's future. Creativity thrives in the tails. This thought reminds me of the engaging argument made By Nassim Taleb in “The Black Swan”. He refers to inference by the bell curve as “the great intellectual fraud” (GIF), because of the curve’s inability to represent the real significance of large deviations (the tails of the curve). It’s the stuff in the tails, the “Black Swans”, that truly matter. This book is worth a look if you haven’t seen it. The more I grasp how truly “uncertain” or undpredictable the world is, the more hopeful I am of our industry’s future. Creativity thrives in the tails.

]]> http://www.zeusjones.com/blog/2007/the-taste-of-crowds/#comment-52 Zeus Jones Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:33:00 +0000 http://zeusjones.sierrabravo.net/blog/?p=101#comment-52 Funny, nice one Funny, nice one

]]> http://www.zeusjones.com/blog/2007/the-taste-of-crowds/#comment-51 Chris Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:37:00 +0000 http://zeusjones.sierrabravo.net/blog/?p=101#comment-51 Everybody loves this post. Everybody loves this post.

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