Power Laws, Weblogs, and Your Given Name

gummint writes "After contemplating the blogsphere and pondering whether "diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality", consider an old-media domain name: the one your parents gave you. How did they choose it? How many other persons have the same one? Get some facts, or a lot of facts. Or just comment anyway. The good news is that the extent of inequality can change massively over time: the popularity of the most popular given names has decreased dramatically since the Industrial Revolution."

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why we all think france is insane mod -1 offtopic

[kraksmoka]

i killed my karma bonus. somehow this was on topic before i started talking, but i wanna post it anyway. feel free to skip this if you only speak french.

liberty, equality, fraternity.

well great, fraternity is always nice (course women really aren't part of that, and it aint by accident). but if you know anything, you've known from the get go that liberty is the root of inequality. in the USA people typically equate equality to the equality of opportunity (like mortgage lending, or head football coaching gigs for blacks and other minorities). over in france, they seem to prefer a more absolute version of equality, but that kind of equality comes solely at the expense of freedom!

why this long rant, when this stuff is about blogging, not about france???

i can't answer that either, but if you're upset that nobody reads your blog, maybe you're just having alot of gallic thoughts that day, poor you.