Comments on: A meta-analysis of the “Slashdot effect” http://polyscience.org/2005/07/a-meta-analysis-of-the-slashdot-effect/ Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:46:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: polyscience.org » Chain emails and gas prices http://polyscience.org/2005/07/a-meta-analysis-of-the-slashdot-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-144 polyscience.org » Chain emails and gas prices Sun, 04 Sep 2005 14:26:18 +0000 http://polyscience.org/?p=15#comment-144 [...] I remember reading a similar email years ago, and for some reason, I always wondered idly if it were true. Not having thought about it much, I sort of forgot about it. But with all the insanity in the US surrounding the rising gas prices, it has resurfaced, more popular than ever. Officially, today was to be the day that no one bought gas. I’m sure that this didn’t happen for myriad reasons, the main one being that despite the size and saturation of Internet access in American households, the Internet is still fairly new, and newspapers and television still reach a wider audience. Even massive websites, like Slashdot, only reach an average of ~2000 people per million, or 0.2% of the population. So even if a place like Slashdot had posted it, it still wouldn’t have made that big of an impact. Of course part of the slashdot effect is that many other, smaller websites pick up whatever is posted, further disseminating it to the masses. Supposing that doubled the number of viewers, that would still only be 0.4% of the population. [...]

]]> By: rianjs.net » The BBC makes Beethoven’s symphonies available http://polyscience.org/2005/07/a-meta-analysis-of-the-slashdot-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-15 rianjs.net » The BBC makes Beethoven’s symphonies available Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:26:45 +0000 http://polyscience.org/?p=15#comment-15 [...] Update 4: For you slashdot types, I’ve written up an analysis of the slashdot effect. You can read it here. [...]

]]> By: alek http://polyscience.org/2005/07/a-meta-analysis-of-the-slashdot-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-14 alek Fri, 22 Jul 2005 04:33:06 +0000 http://polyscience.org/?p=15#comment-14 Great writeup – enjoyed reading through it and especially got a chuckle out of the ISP tech doing the 10-100 Mbit upgrade real fast after he saw the story! ;-)

In case you are interested in another set of Slashdot Affect Data, my experience is quite similar to yours – see http://www.komar.org/faq/slashdot-effect/

]]> By: rianjs.net » Yeah… I could do that. http://polyscience.org/2005/07/a-meta-analysis-of-the-slashdot-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-8 rianjs.net » Yeah… I could do that. Mon, 18 Jul 2005 04:04:11 +0000 http://polyscience.org/?p=15#comment-8 [...] Writing full length articles on the spur of the moment, like I did the other night. [...]

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