Isn't this all explained by power law effects? There was an HN thread digging up an old Shirky.com article on this not too long ago: https://web.archive.org/we

Isn't this all explained by power law effects? There was an HN thread digging up an old Shirky.com article on this not too long ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20060208093032/http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060208093032/http://www.shirky... discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31038660 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31038660 TL;DR: power laws predictably mean the top <whatever> looks really big, but that doesn't mean the long tail doesn't matter either.