This had a more lecture type feel to it than the previous ones but anyway onto the points.

We dealt with the different types of networks in the both the reading and tutor with Elliot as he also brought up nodes as the stations in the trains network in Melbourne. This network is much more restricted than the scale free network that the internet is as it can has no limit on how much it grows and expands. The process of using tags and categorizing our posts is a way to lead people to visit particular nodes that we want to users to see.

The site Cowbird was quite interesting as it curates the aggregation of stories submitted by users though the use of key words and categories. This is a good example to how every story can relate to each other. The whole ‘Oracle of Kevin Bacon’ thing was both humorous to think about and also a great example of links in a network. The fact that every celebrity is in some way linked to Kevin Bacon shows how easy it is to link people if we take the time to trace back the links we can go to some unexpected and strange places.