The Levy flight - By Seth Godin - Shared with our Readers. Clay Shirky taught me this very cool mathematical concept that shows up in nature, and now in marketing and social media. Levy-flight-100000 An animal that forages will hang out in a small area, looking for nuts or berries, then will realize it has used up all the likely sources in this spot. It will then head off in a random direction, walk many paces, and start foraging again. When you plot the Levy flight, it looks like this: Someone discovers your site. They poke and prod and join and return and return again. Then they feel … [Read more...]
