Comments on: Motive and opportunity http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2008/08/03/motive-and-opportunity/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brooks Van Norman http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2008/08/03/motive-and-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-395616 Brooks Van Norman Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:11:00 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=1272#comment-395616 It makes you wonder how the "B" players become "A" players. All jokes aside, it really just comes down to persistence and staying power. A little luck, edginess or humor never hurt either. But if there's one thing I learned about success online, it is this: The internet rewards persistence. It makes you wonder how the “B” players become “A” players. All jokes aside, it really just comes down to persistence and staying power. A little luck, edginess or humor never hurt either. But if there’s one thing I learned about success online, it is this: The internet rewards persistence.

]]> By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2008/08/03/motive-and-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-394758 JP Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:51:06 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=1272#comment-394758 You could be right, Balaji. I hope not. I have this hunch that there is an equivalent of Linus's Law for Type B: ......given enough eyeballs..... Lewis, thanks a lot. I look forward to listening to the dialogue, I'm familiar with Goleman's work. You could be right, Balaji. I hope not. I have this hunch that there is an equivalent of Linus’s Law for Type B: ……given enough eyeballs…..

Lewis, thanks a lot. I look forward to listening to the dialogue, I’m familiar with Goleman’s work.

]]> By: lewis http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2008/08/03/motive-and-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-394751 lewis Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:36:18 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=1272#comment-394751 Hello, I wanted to refer you to a website you may be interested in, especially if you like reading Clay Shirky. http://www.morethansound.net has a dialogue between him and Daniel Goleman available called “Socially Intelligent Computing.” It is quite good and available on DVD or digital download. Hello,
I wanted to refer you to a website you may be interested in, especially if you like reading Clay Shirky. http://www.morethansound.net has a dialogue between him and Daniel Goleman available called “Socially Intelligent Computing.” It is quite good and available on DVD or digital download.

]]> By: Balaji Sowmyanarayanan http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2008/08/03/motive-and-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-394695 Balaji Sowmyanarayanan Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:03:02 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=1272#comment-394695 A series of genuine blockbusters will motivate enough people to game the era( be it ad era, or peer-to-peer recommendation era) We are too early in the Type B era to conclude that Type B is characterized by not being gamed. Remember, radio broadcast( rather radio ads) also democratized businesses of that era. So is containerization( of shipments). In my opinion, gaming is inevitable progression. Indeed, it comes with the territory of studying/understanding any interesting system/phenomenon. A series of genuine blockbusters will motivate enough people to game the era( be it ad era, or peer-to-peer recommendation era) We are too early in the Type B era to conclude that Type B is characterized by not being gamed.

Remember, radio broadcast( rather radio ads) also democratized businesses of that era. So is containerization( of shipments). In my opinion, gaming is inevitable progression. Indeed, it comes with the territory of studying/understanding any interesting system/phenomenon.

]]> By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2008/08/03/motive-and-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-394274 JP Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:53:54 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=1272#comment-394274 Thanks for that, Kevin. I remember your post now, just couldn't recall where I'd seen the "barriers to entry" argument. Age, I guess. Thanks for that, Kevin. I remember your post now, just couldn’t recall where I’d seen the “barriers to entry” argument. Age, I guess.

]]> By: Kevin Marks http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2008/08/03/motive-and-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-394241 Kevin Marks Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:21:55 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=1272#comment-394241 <a href="http://epeus.blogspot.com/2003/10/its-about-barriers-to-entry-not-power.html" rel="nofollow">As I put in in 2003</a>: If you look at relative popularity on the web, using something like Technorati, you get a power law curve that goes all the way down smoothly, to the bottom where you see pages that got just a single link. If you look at popularity in the publishing world - movies, chart music or books - the curve starts out with a power law, but soon drops like a stone. That's because in order to get a movie made, a recording contract or a book published, you have to convince somebody that you're going to sell a million tickets, a hundred thousand CDs or tens of thousands of books. You end up in a zero-sum game, where people pour enormous resources into being number one, because number two is only half as good. The promise of the net is that the power of all those little links can outweigh the power of the top ten. As I put in in 2003:
If you look at relative popularity on the web, using something like Technorati, you get a power law curve that goes all the way down smoothly, to the bottom where you see pages that got just a single link.
If you look at popularity in the publishing world – movies, chart music or books – the curve starts out with a power law, but soon drops like a stone.
That’s because in order to get a movie made, a recording contract or a book published, you have to convince somebody that you’re going to sell a million tickets, a hundred thousand CDs or tens of thousands of books.
You end up in a zero-sum game, where people pour enormous resources into being number one, because number two is only half as good. The promise of the net is that the power of all those little links can outweigh the power of the top ten.

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