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Worth remembering is Clay Shirky’s Point about taste, recommendations and power law curves. A paradox of the situation is the growth of these systems, and their elimination of other systems, can ensure that each individual has more options than before, while the total of all options declines.

http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/powerlaw_w...



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