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Well, I suppose I should feel honored that a comment of mine prompted you to start this discussion, but I'm mostly reassured: I'm not alone asking myself these kind of questions :)

Well, it's not pure, undiluted searching for the truth... I wanted to test my hypothesis that people migrate through links provided by other people at other network nodes.

That we draw from Booman and Kos isn't terribly surprising, of course, but the way we got a whole migration from Timesonline is interesting, because it suggests that the Booman/Kos umbilical chord is not unique, and that it's possible to recruit new talent from other fora if you have an integral presence there.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 05:27:11 PM EST
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There's probably a nice PhD project in there somewhere.

If we're allowed to do that on here. :)

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 06:05:22 PM EST
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In that case you'll have to put me down in the outlier column :) I'm one of the few who don't read dkos and never have. I like ET because of its high signal to noise ratio, but my main interests tend to be technical/science related, not so much political, and I usually goof around foremost on slashdot, and have been doing so for probably 10 years.

It's unlikely that I would have ever started reading ET if it didn't run on Scoop. I can't stand the linear discussion forums that litter the web, and much prefer tree-ordered comment structures. Another requirement is that it has to run well enough on my web browser of choice: w3m. I think I found ET more or less randomly over time TBH.

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by martingale on Tue May 26th, 2009 at 09:20:01 PM EST
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