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Kevin Marks is author of the weblog Epeus Epigone and a software engineer, now working as principal engineer for Technorati after doing award-winning work for both Apple and the BBC. He is a founding member of the Social Software Alliance.

At the first BloggerCon, Kevin gave the first coherent explanation most people had ever heard of the power curve as it applies to weblogs:

"The net changes the power law of the media curve. If you look at relative popularity on the web, using something like Technorati, you get a power curve that goes all the way down gradually, to the bottom where you see pages that got just a single click. If you look at popularity in the "real" world--best-selling books, or top music--the power curve drops like a stone from a very high level. That's because in order to get a book published, or a piece of music recorded, you have to convince somebody that you're going to sell a million copies. You end up in a zero-sum game, where people pour enormous resources into being number one, because number two is only half as good. The promise of the net is that the power of all those little links can outweigh the power of the top ten."

Kevin was also an early experimenter with and contributor to the technologies that much later become popular under the names podcasting and iPodder.

Kevin demonstrated Podcasting [1] October 4, 2003 at a Bloggercon 8 months prior to iPodder. In addition Kevin Marks discussed it at [2] and [3].

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-'''Kevin Marks''' is a blogger ([[http://epeus.blogspot.com/]Epeus Epigone]) and software engineer, now working as principal engineer for [[Technorati]] after doing award-winning work for both [[Apple]] and the [[BBC]]. He is a founding member of the [[Social Software Alliance]].
+'''Kevin Marks''' is author of the weblog [http://epeus.blogspot.com/ Epeus Epigone] and a software engineer, now working as principal engineer for [[Technorati]] after doing award-winning work <!-- what awards? --> for both [[Apple]] and the [[BBC]]. He is a founding member of the [[Social Software Alliance]].
-At the first [[Bloggercon]], Kevin gave the first coherent explanation most people had ever heard of the power curve as it applies to weblogs:
+At the first [[BloggerCon]], Kevin gave the first coherent explanation most people had ever heard of the power curve as it applies to weblogs:
-"The net changes the power law of the media curve. If you look at relative popularity on the web, using something like Technorati, you get a power curve that goes all the way down gradually, to the bottom where you see pages that got just a single click. If you look at popularity in the "real" world--best-selling books, or top music--the power curve drops like a stone from a very high level. That's because in order to get a book published, or a piece of music recorded, you have to convince somebody that you're going to sell a million copies. You end up in a zero-sum game, where people pour enormous resources into being number one, because number two is only half as good. The promise of the net is that the power of all those little links can outweigh the power of the top ten."
+:"The net changes the power law of the media curve. If you look at relative popularity on the web, using something like Technorati, you get a power curve that goes all the way down gradually, to the bottom where you see pages that got just a single click. If you look at popularity in the "real" world--best-selling books, or top music--the power curve drops like a stone from a very high level. That's because in order to get a book published, or a piece of music recorded, you have to convince somebody that you're going to sell a million copies. You end up in a zero-sum game, where people pour enormous resources into being number one, because number two is only half as good. The promise of the net is that the power of all those little links can outweigh the power of the top ten."
 Kevin was also an early experimenter with and contributor to the technologies that much later become popular under the names [[podcasting]] and [[iPodder]].
-Kevin demonstrated Podcasting [3]  (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ml/output.pl/35512/stream/temp.ram) October 4, 2003 at a Bloggercon 8 months prior to iPodder. In addition Kevin Marks discussed it here [4] (http://www.blognewsnetwork.com/members/0000001/2003/10/05.html#a4556) and here [5] (http://epeus.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_epeus_archive.html#106527364652597310).
+Kevin demonstrated Podcasting [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ml/output.pl/35512/stream/temp.ram] October 4, 2003 at a Bloggercon 8 months prior to iPodder. In addition Kevin Marks discussed it at [http://www.blognewsnetwork.com/members/0000001/2003/10/05.html#a4556] and [http://epeus.blogspot.com/2003_10_01_epeus_archive.html#106527364652597310].