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February 17, 2006
Social indicators
Social indicators: This SLATE article is nominally about "Have blogs peaked?", but author Daniel Gross lays out some indirect tests for assessing various phenomena... if a topic hits magazine covers it's likely no longer news... smarter investors cash out at peak (although it's hard to tell peaks until they're past ;-)... if big, slow-moving organizations, or new gullible latecomers start talking it up then it may be past peak, although these are difficult to pick out without hindisght too. Well, maybe these guidelines are too subjective and after-the-fact to be have good predictive power, maybe, but it read good to me the first time.... ;-)
Posted by John Dowdell at February 17, 2006 01:00 PM
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