rambeling attempt to explain network science

I in a network system the competition is for links. In the 2 way web you benefit by linking
more to others in contextual ways thus creating a rich easy to navigate digital media
information space. Understanding the fundamental rules of networks structure helps you
identify how best to spend your time and how to compete for links and determine where
you should by preference attach your node to the others.

There are at least two networks working together in the blogspehere One the bloggers, where
the nodes are the people and the links are the exchanges of information the communication
of concepts.

f your creative contribution to the community.

A second network in the blogger ecosystem is the network where nodes are pages and links
between nodes are hyperlinks and blogrools and primary nav categories google boxes. Nodes
of this kind in the blogger ecosystem have a very high density of both forward and backward
links. Barabasi and his community conducted most of their research using bots that surf
this second web page network.

This network is the domain of Google. Google for now has its own social norms that it places
on nodes to determine what to return for any given querry string entered by the user.
This is where blogs are having the most visible effect in the rich get richer aspect of
network growth.

h growth in the number of web pages. It is a very dynamic environment high rate of growth.
New pages attach by preference locating a cluster or link rich part of the network to
start in hopes of being able to acquire their own links.

In a network system there is a intense competition for links. Additionally some pages or
some nodes just plane fit better than others that may be older. The key here is that even
though the rich old fat pages like yahoo keep getting richer fit matters and there is
room for the neveo rich like google to rapidly surpass the rich nodes and acquiring many
more links than if fit did not matter.

Networks like this also act like Bose-Einstein quantum gasses and the equivalent of Bose-Einstein
condensation can occur that results in Winner take all the links or a monopoly or a star
topology. Think NY Yankees or Microsoft.

Why should we form a framework for measurement of social capital in Blogspace? We need
to understand how these topologies affect the stability of complex systems. A better understanding
will help us protect what we value so deeply. Lessig is keenly aware that Politics is
all about network dynamics the rich get richer and it is a ferocious competition for links.
The systematic placement of regulation on key clusters can result in a cascading failure.
However the structure is very resistant to the loss of even the most linked cluster, their
neighbors are close there is built in social capital reserves in the form of years of
pages so that even if a blogger like Dave or Jon decide to go on vacation the rest of
us know how to work together until they return.