My Delicious Long Tail
A couple weeks ago Nivi, a fellow FooCamper, laid down a challenge – to create an application that would interrogate a del.icio.us user’s bookmarks and return a list of the most frequent sources…in essence visualing the Long Tail of a user’s bookmarks.
Pascale Van Hecke answered the challenge (winning $50!). So here’s my del.icio.us long tail:
salon.com (27), wired.com (27), news.bbc.co.uk (24), imran.typepad.com (15), spiked-online.com (13), nytimes.com (11), flickr.com (8), news.com.com (7), wanadoo.typepad.com (7), longtail.typepad.com (6), guardian.co.uk (6), bbc.co.uk (6), telepocalypse.net (5), corante.com (5), foreignpolicy.com (4),
en.wikipedia.org (4), foe.typepad.com (4),
…
erickaakcire.net (1), turbulence.org (1), xtech-conference.org (1), 37signals.com (1), pleasurecards.com (1), rssmix.com (1), big-boys.com (1)
Surprisingly, my ‘tail’ is pretty long…from a distribution of 571 sources, only 48 yielded more than one bookmark – ranging from Salon.com to Ian’s personal site. It’d be interesting to see this visualisation, and others, built directly into del.icio.us as a concordance of a user’s sources, not just their tags.