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February 11, 2003
Inequality and the Internet
Ooh, how weird is that? Just as I finished the first half of Barabási's for class, the fine folks at WebWord post this succinct summary about power laws, networks, and weblogs. Barabási's book is quite the interesting read if you're at all into math, science, or the Internet. Barabási is a physics professor at Notre Dame, and his findings relating to how networks lead to these power laws (with few hubs with many links and many nodes with few links) are very interesting. The book describes all this in a very user-friendly way, with lots of discussion related to phenomenon such as the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. I've got to finish the second half for next week's class, but at this point, there is certainly the hint that this understanding of networks, hubs, and power laws may provide some clues for how to deal with terrorist networks like Al Qaeda (I'm guessing it is by interfering with the hubs and not worrying about the less-connected nodes). Heavy-duty stuff.
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