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Category Archives: attention

Comscore’s measurements are bunk

Comscore is a media measurement site similar to Hitwise or the Alexa site rankings. They do a decent job, but people are beginning to take their data way too seriously for the accuracy that their methodology delivers.
Essentially, they (like Alexa) rely on users installing software which monitors which sites they visit.
That methodology means your samples [...]

Spam in social news sites

Greg and some other commentators have posted a few thoughts on how spam on Digg is becoming a problem
It should be pointed out that Netscape.com has an even bigger problem:

It takes less votes to get to the front page on Netscape
There are even more users of Netscape than Digg
Netscape users are often less experienced than [...]

AttentionTrust: Good idea?

I’ve written a piece on my work blog which may interest some readers: AttentionTrust: why not everything that seems like a good idea is. In it I argue that many of the principles set out by AttentionTrust.org are not the wonderful ideas they seem.
(Thanks also to my fellow antipodeian Richard MacManus for the link love [...]