A critic of Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality

Emmanuel Décarie has published an interesting critic of Clay Shirky's paper on Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality. He makes, in my humble opinion, an excellent point about the fact that "the power law doesn't give a damn about context and content".

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