» BuzzLogic calculates social media influence | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
» BuzzLogic calculates social media influence | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com: the buzz tracking game seems to becoming an valid business model. However, how smart is it to base business off relative buzz and other peoples algorithms? Are we entering into a recursive situation of buzz aggregators aggregating buzz aggregators ad infinitum in order to get some noise within the signal that we can quantify as information (remember, information = noise, not clear air).
[...] I made passing reference to the Buzzlogic Tool yesterday, in making my point on the WSJ New-Media World article. Since then, Buzzlogic itself has gone to create a virtual case study on the buzz capability “blog-vegas” – they’ve turned up in Dan Farber’s blog on ZDNet, in Tom Foremski’s blog on Silicon Valley Watcher, Ethan Kaplan’s BlackRimGlasses.com, and a total of 78 blogs so far since David Churbuck’s post (see the WSJ post yesterday, I don’t want to clutter up his blog with trackbacks) yesterday. [...]