The "alphabetical norm" is the rule that coauthors on a paper are listed alphabetically, which results in only alphabetically privileged authors getting citation credits (everyone else is "et al"). The paper demonstrating the effect was written by Liran Einav and some other guy.Indeed.
Is the same true in the blogosphere, where blogrolls are often arranged alphabetically? There's a research project just waiting to happen here!
The paper discussed is interesting as well to lessen the self-referential narcissism...
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I suupose that means your blog ought to be the Earth according to...
EAP!
Even better would be the Yodian (Yodish? Yoda'n?) According to Pooh the World...
EAP? Check out your blogroll, I'm L and I'm almost hitting bottom. You may have to suck it up and change to "America According to..." ("Alaska According to" would get you even higher...)
Oh, my. Sincerely, thanks for the link.
But--oh, my!--one of my most boring (though not most inane) posts, and from the weekend when I determined that I had to put my blog on hiatus for an indeterminate period, but just d-r-a-g-g-e-d it out.
Heh.
Thanks ... it's nice not to have EEOTC go completely dead.
Pooh, think of it as occupying the "rearguard position of honor."
I did not pick this name to be high on blogrolls, but I admit that I noticed the effect pretty early on. I get traffic from other people's blogrolls that has to come from people seeing me near the top of the list. (and very few of them stick around, which isn't terribly good for me ego).
What I want is a script that will display the blogroll in normal or reverse order, randomly....
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