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The Mercury News features an article by Scott Kirsner with an extremely obvious premise but is still worth a read: everyday users (whether they are bloggers, MySpace users, or YouTube posters) are obsessed with audience analytics: page views, referrers, downloads, number of friends. Whether for commercial gain or personal satisfaction, popularity is motivating... and being unpopular is... sad. [Image Credit: Sitemeter.]
People like knowing how popular they are!
The Mercury News features an article by Scott Kirsner with an extremely obvious premise but is still worth a read: everyday users (whether they are bloggers, MySpace users, or YouTube posters) are obsessed with audience analytics: page views, referrers, downloads, number of friends. Whether for commercial gain or personal satisfaction, popularity is motivating... and being unpopular is... sad. [Image Credit: Sitemeter.]
2:25 PM on Tue May 29 2007
By Tim Faulkner
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