Synesthesia

Ton sums it up well. As soon as I get a response from Ecademy support telling me how to remove my profile it will be gone.

I finally get around to reading the Burt paper on the Social Origin of Good Ideas.

It is the nature of mind to filter experience through the most recent or most strongly held concepts. No wonder then that after (finally) coming across Reed's Law thanks to this thought-provoking article by Robert Paterson I shortly spotted these...

This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs are most influential in the propagation of memes. The dataset from this experiment will be public, and can be located via Google (or Technorati) by doing a search for the GUID for this meme (as098398298250swg9e98929872525389t9987898tq98wteqtgaq62010920352598gawst).

An unfounded speculation about Ton Zijlstra's blogroll.

Steve at OnePotMeal is untangling the strands of online influence. He starts by agreeing with AKMA that, regardless of the sometimes high noise-signal ratio on the web: we can devise and sustain persistent salutary connections online in new ways that would have been significantly less workable and durable under the limitations of physical interaction and adds a [...]

Azeem points to this article in Nature from last summer that reports work by Adilson Motter and colleagues at Arizona State University. The researchers traced the links between 30,000 English words in an online thesaurus. For example, the word ‘actor’ can be connected to ‘universe’ through two intermediaries. The thesaurus lists ‘character’ as a synonym for [...]