P. S.: Post Scriptum » Clay Shirky http://blog.pietrosperoni.it Pietro Speroni di Fenizio's web log Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:25:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © P. S.: Post Scriptum 2011 pietros@gmail.com (P. S.: Post Scriptum) pietros@gmail.com (P. S.: Post Scriptum) http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg P. S.: Post Scriptum http://blog.pietrosperoni.it 144 144 Pietro Speroni di Fenizio's web log P. S.: Post Scriptum P. S.: Post Scriptum pietros@gmail.com no no Tagclouds and cultural changes http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/28/tagclouds-and-cultural-changes/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/28/tagclouds-and-cultural-changes/#comments Sat, 28 May 2005 19:55:09 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/28/tagclouds-and-cultural-changes/ In the previous post I discussed how we can measure the relative importance of tags in a post, by calculating their weight, as

weight of tag t= (number of people using t)/(total number of people)

I also said that:

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Introduction

As correctly pointed out by Jeffrey Zeldman tag clouds are becoming more and more popular. Yet [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/25/tag-clouds-metric/feed/ 31 On Artificial Scarcity http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/04/08/on-artificial-scarcity/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/04/08/on-artificial-scarcity/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:31:10 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/04/08/on-artificial-scarcity/ Some time ago I posted about how artificial scarcity applied to travellers. Today I read about Clay Shirky who has a hard time in copying his own material, of which he is copyholder, because modern tools have been adjusted not to make this copy feasible… to protect copyright. His comment was:

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