Predicting popularity (revised)

Posted by on Apr 23, 2007 in Uncategorized | 3 Comments

A number of folk have picked up on the Duncan Watts piece (“Is Justin T the product of cumulative advantage?”) in last week’s NYT mag about how a minor difference in diffusion patterns can make a big difference to the outcome. Justin’s tunes like Lockdown was so successful, Watts suggests, because it was marginally more […]

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