SIGIA-L Mail Archives: [Sigia-l] It's old news
[Sigia-l] It's old news
If you think you're reading the news, be warned that this story -- and any
other on the web -- will be barely read by anyone 36 hours after it was
first posted. That's the message from a team of statistical physicists who
have analysed how people access information online. Albert-László Barabási
of the University of Notre Dame in the US and colleagues in Hungary have
calculated that the number of people who read news stories on the web decays
with time in a power law, and not exponentially as commonly thought. Most
news becomes old hat within a day and a half of being posted -- a finding
that could help website designers or people trying to understand how
information gets transferred in biological cells and social networks
<http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/7/3/1>
Surprising?
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Ziya
Usability > Simplify the Solution
Design > Simplify the Problem
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