{"id":385,"date":"2003-11-05T17:02:35","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T21:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/2003\/11\/05\/beat-power-law-through-saved-searches\/"},"modified":"2012-04-29T10:50:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T14:50:22","slug":"beat-power-law-through-saved-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/2003\/11\/05\/beat-power-law-through-saved-searches\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat power law through saved searches:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a532'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The problem is, &#8220;How can we find new, interesting, little-known content when we all read what everbody reads and points to?&#8221; Not only in the blogosphere, but even in applications like ITunes, where people tend to see what the majority sees, this is a problem. For example, the top 25 songs are listned to way more often than the others. The solution:Providing a way to store search results along with other links, like Top 25, will help overcome the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/writings\/powerlaw_weblog.html\">power law<\/a>. Giving easy access to stored search results can bring up some pretty interesting, little known information. Andy Edmonds writes how he uses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfmind.com\/musings\/2003\/11\/01\/index.cfm#index\">feedster rss searches and aggregators to beat the power law<\/a>. Also, I started my own <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/discuss\/msgReader$531\">feedster track<\/a>, I previously used only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googlealert.com\">google alert<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem is, &#8220;How can we find new, interesting, little-known content when we all read what everbody reads and points to?&#8221; Not only in the blogosphere, but even in applications like ITunes, where people tend to see what the majority sees, this is a problem. For example, the top 25 songs are listned to way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}