Tag: smallworld
Small World Networks, Scale Free, Kevin Bacon
My riff in response to Brian’s comment that the 80/20 stuff isn’t what really matters in the reading. the internet is scale free – you can add and add to it and it doesn’t fill... Read More
More Richness
Though the thing to take away is the long tail point, what lies in the tail is greater than what lies at the big end, so for online stuff something important is that while it might seem obvious that t... Read More
Last Week.
I rank other people's comments and those who consistently seem to be highly rated by others will be elevated in terms of authority in, and by, the system (this is essentially a slashdot system as th... Read More
Recommended
Molly picks up my post about recommendation systems and notes that she hates the ads on Facebook but likes Spotify. Exactly, the former is only selling ads, not recommendations of what other peop... Read More
Networky Networks
Tony discusses the long tail , and is surprised at the mention of Kazaa, this just shows how quickly things change here, where we often measure an internet year as a dog year, so 1 year online = 7 yea... Read More
More Voxies
I'm with Patrick, the bigger, faster, more resilient it is built now, the better off we will be, it is the difference in defining useful as an extractive economy (dig it up, sell it) versus a knowledg... Read More
Networky Stuff
Lucy also discusses the second reading noting how the web isn't static, its structure changes over time, and that hubs and connectors are important attributes of these sorts of networks, which occur ... Read More