"In any information ecosystem, there is an observable tendency for a few sources on a topic - be they journals, websites or people - to have a massive following, a significantly smaller number to have a medium number of followers, and then a final, largest group to have a much smaller number of regular readers. This can be witnessed in the Technorati Top 100: the top 100 blogs range from around 80,900 unique links to 4,900 (quite a decrease), yet Technorati track 26.6 million sites. If the downward link trend continues across all 26.6 million, most weblogs have at most one a handful of links - and therefore a correspondingly small number of readers. I've been wondering for a while how best to verbalise this...
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