- Will the internet end up controlled by big businesses and politicians?: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/23/internet-will-oligarchs-control-it
- Today, the internet is a platform for normal citizens to have their voice heard across sites such as Twitter, Facebook or blogs.
- However, with big co-operations trying to control everything to make the most money this article asks whether they will be able to control it.
- I believe that this won't happen and if it were to happen I think that it wouldn't be the right thing to do as it would take away the voice of the people of the net due to politicians and organisations monitoring your every move online.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/06/power-laws-internet-john-naughton
- The 80/20 split = the Pareto Principle.
- normal distribution is rare.
- In its place, we see the distribution of which Pareto's Principle is a special example: a small number of people/sites/words/etc account for most of the action, with a "long tail" getting very little of it.
- Instead of most websites having an "average" number of inbound links, a very small number of sites (the Googles, Facebooks and Amazons of this world) have colossal numbers of links, while millions of sites have to make do with only a few.
- Everywhere you look on the internet, you find power laws
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