Online community is a really interesting thing – Joel Spolsky has written about it, but he misses a larger question: why does livejournal succeed where others have failed? How the heck did http://everything2.org develop such a rabid fanbase? Why is it now gone? Does http://wikipedia.org encourage a vibrant community? What [...]
Archives for December 2004
graph theory
Graph theory is the study of dots and lines. More than that, it starts getting shrouded in mystery. It’s becoming more and more clear that I and many of my fellow researchers need some good, easy to compute metrics that measure the suitablility of a graph for a particular task. Things like [...]
drowning in data
I have a theory that we’re all drowning in data. If that’s true, then we’ve entered what might be considered a new age of computation and human existence. Now, instead of trying to find out information, we’re trying to restrict our input into only that data which is important to us. Besides that, [...]
