Via Joi Ito's Web: Cameron Marlow's paper provides more data supporting the power lows of blog network.
Barabási has noted that the growth of scale free networks is not only determined by the age of nodes, but also by the node strength, an undefined property related to a node’s ability to acquire links. Permalink rank might be an accurate way of measuring node strength, and a better proxy to authority and influence at a given point in time.
And...
Also see Clay Shirky's Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality for more information about the power low of the Internet.
Of course, don't forget the book «Linked» by Prof. Barabási.
By mjhsieh at May 25, 2004 02:04 AM | Monthly Archives