Forbes.com has an interesting series of essays on networks. Useful for T214.
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Forbes on Networks
Posted in T214 on May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The dark side
Posted in Malware, T187, T189, T214 on May 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
BBC NEWS | Technology | Google searches web’s dark side
One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user’s PC.
Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to “in-depth analysis”.
About 450,000 were capable of launching so-called “drive-by downloads”, sites that install malicious code, [...]
Clay Shirky on Power Laws and the Web
Posted in Blogging, Network science, T214 on March 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Useful for T214
And for Blogging paper and ecosystem essays.
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Excerpt:
The basic shape is simple – in any system sorted by rank, the value for the Nth position will be 1/N. For whatever is being ranked — income, links, traffic — the value of second place will be half that of first place, and tenth place will [...]
David Weinberger on folksonomies
Posted in Folksonomies, T214, TU120, Tagging on March 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Find it here.
