“In lists of numbers from many (but not all) real-life sources of data, the leading digit is distributed in a specific, non-uniform way. According to this law, the first digit is 1 about 30% of the time, and larger digits occur as the leading digit with lower and lower frequency, to the point where 9 as a first digit occurs less than 5% of the time.”

Lots of interesting stuff could be built on this idea. Stay tune

“Blog is dead” echoes everywhere. And indeed it’s been a really long time since blogosphere got a big news. But the latest big news, came from none other than the bid daddy of blogging, sparks a new light. WordPress announced an ad platform exclusive for wordpress bloggers called WordAds.

From the release:

“We’ve resisted advertising so far because most of it we had seen wasn’t terribly tasteful, and it seemed like Google’s AdSense was the state-of-the-art, which was sad. You pour a lot of time and effort into your blog and you deserve better than AdSense.”

Well, yeah I hope it will be much better than AdSense or any other ad platforms. I’ve realized that in the past couple of years, ad platforms like that have change the online publishing landscape, for good or worst. Top Notch content creators get their incentive to create more and better contents. But the others are just incenticized to copy, scrap, spam, profit, profit, and profit.

It’s not clear yet how WordPress would make the platform different or (hopefully) better. But if you want to find out, you should meet their criteria (I hope it’s worth the hassle ).

I’m not a fanboy, but I have a couple of those shiny iStuff. I’m not a fan of Steve Jobs either, but I love to learn from everyone. And he’s nothing short of inspirational figure for most of us, despite anything you might hate of him. In 1995, during the making of “Triumph of the Nerds”, TV series about the birth of the PC, Bob Cringely did an interview with Steve Jobs. Continue reading →