%0 Journal Article %1 Simkin2015Why %A Simkin, Mikhail V. %A Roychowdhury, Vwani P. %D 2015 %J Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology %K blogs, influence %P n/a %R 10.1002/asi.23289 %T Why does attention to web articles fall with Time? %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.23289 %X We analyze access statistics for a few dozen blog entries for a period of several years. Access rate falls as an inverse power of time passed since publication. The power law holds for periods up to thousand days. The exponents are different for different blogs and are distributed between 1 and 3. Decay of attention to aging web articles has been reported before and two explanations were proposed. One explanation introduced some decaying with time novelty factor. Another used some intricate theory of human dynamics. We argue that the decay of attention to a web article is simply caused by the link to it first dropping down the list of links on the website's front page, disappearing from the front page and subsequent movement further into background.

@article{Simkin2015Why, abstract = {{We analyze access statistics for a few dozen blog entries for a period of several years. Access rate falls as an inverse power of time passed since publication. The power law holds for periods up to thousand days. The exponents are different for different blogs and are distributed between 1 and 3. Decay of attention to aging web articles has been reported before and two explanations were proposed. One explanation introduced some decaying with time novelty factor. Another used some intricate theory of human dynamics. We argue that the decay of attention to a web article is simply caused by the link to it first dropping down the list of links on the website's front page, disappearing from the front page and subsequent movement further into background.}}, added-at = {2019-06-10T14:53:09.000+0200}, archiveprefix = {arXiv}, author = {Simkin, Mikhail V. and Roychowdhury, Vwani P.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2e2300f006d43cbf8e0e300b17e9e45a5/nonancourt}, citeulike-article-id = {10361263}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.23289}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3492}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.3492}, day = 11, doi = {10.1002/asi.23289}, eprint = {1202.3492}, interhash = {074c2c1f09688947b08f26b1ad47ff11}, intrahash = {e2300f006d43cbf8e0e300b17e9e45a5}, issn = {2330-1635}, journal = {Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology}, keywords = {blogs, influence}, month = jan, pages = {n/a}, posted-at = {2012-02-17 10:01:05}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2019-06-10T14:53:09.000+0200}, title = {{Why does attention to web articles fall with Time?}}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.23289}, year = 2015 }