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I agree, and while there is a of of redundancy across these blog posts, the count is very useful in gauging how large the problem is. please carry on telling u

• raganwald 17y ago
  > the count is very useful in gauging how large the problem is. While I upmodded your comment, I disagree with this. There are a lot of problems with using social media as a metric for anything. For one thing, it suffers from information cascades. The presence of articles on a subject encourages others to write articles on the same subject and there is teh appearance of a snowball effect. But there may be absolutely no change in what people are doing, just a change in what people are discussing.
  • daleharvey 17y ago
    is definitely a fuzzy metric, I didnt mean that people should sit and count all the pro vs con posts, but the cascade works on both sides, everyone is talking about the iphone right now, if a bunch of people werent criticizing it I would see one article explaining the cons and 50 talking about how awesome it it.