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Is Johnson's "Clustering Emergence" Really Small-world Network Formation?

I was thinking some more last night about Stephen Johnson’s new position that there are separate types of clustering and adaptive emergence as I was reading Albert-Laszlo Barabasi’s book Linked (which I am enjoying immensely, by the way; more on … Continue reading

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Link Prediction in Social Networks

I’m afraid this is going to be something of an echo-blog, since I don’t have the paid subscription to the ACM library necessary to allow me to see the original article, but the About Kim weblog has an intriguing and … Continue reading

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RSS and the Power Law

I share James Farmer’s frustration that some of the Power Law blogs don’t have RSS feeds. There was a time when I would regularly surf dozens of sites every day to see if they had been updated but that time … Continue reading

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Help Break the Power Law: Downes Leads the Way

In the August 1st edition of OLDaily, Stephen Downes does the e-learning community a great service. (I would have provided a hyperlink to the edition, but the site doesn’t seem to have conventional permalinks and the page hasn’t been rolled … Continue reading

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