Audience of One

Interest

Given my attempt to post more entries in this month than any month up till now, I thought I would draw a graph plotting how interesting any given individual entry is in its own right, with the frequency of posting.

As you can see, the more entries posted in a given period of time, the lower the quality of the individual entry. Conversely, the more sparsely updated this site is, the more interesting the entries will be when they come.

This could also be represented in another way. Imagine C as the total amount of interest in any given period of time t. C is a constant. Then take frequency (f) as the number of entries (n) divided by time. The variables form this equation, where x is the interest of that particular entry: x = C/f.

As you can see this means that x is inversely proportional to f, meaning that the more often I write entries, the less interesting the individual entry gets.

However, this is a gross oversimplification of the problem, and I’m sure our resident mathematicians will be able to expand on my formula and come up with a much more accurate model, taking into account the anomalous variables that arise as a result of:

• sleep
• caffeine
• travelling half way across the world

They may even be able to include a variable allowing for differing opinions as to what makes a good entry, what is actually funny and what isn’t, whether geeky entries, film reviews and “go see my latest photos on Flickr!!” entries really count towards frequency, and if so under what circumstances etc. etc.

In the meantime, I have conclusions to draw, and I’ve drawn these conclusions:

Matthew @ 15:51, July 10, 2006 to Miscellaneous | Comments (2)