But perhaps the death of search is good for the future of the web. Perhaps websites can be free of dumb rankings and junky ads that are designed to make fractions of a penny at a time. Perhaps the web needs to be released from the burden of this business model. Perhaps mass readership isn’t possible for the vast majority of websites and was never really sustainable in the first place.
The latest explainer/game from Nicky Case is an absolutely brilliant interactive piece on small world networks.
The spirit of 5K.org lives on. View source: this JavaScript version of Tetris is less than 1K. Details on Github.
Here’s an interesting proposal to slightly amend the semantics of the small element so it could apply to the use-case that hgroup was trying to cover.
I really like this trend of small standalone scripts rather than plug-ins that require the presence of a library.
This looks like being a thoroughly excellent event at The Royal Society, featuring Tim Berners-Lee and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi.
An extremely addictive bit of fun with small world network theory as applied to music.
Six degrees of separation as applied to Wikipedia articles. Read on to find the Kevin Bacon of Wikipedia pages.
It turns out that the brain is a scale-free small-world network in a state of self-organised criticality. Just like the internet.
They never taught this in my school.
Duncan Watts works at Yahoo Research? I had no idea! Ironically, it was Gladwell's Tipping Point that first led me to Watts' work.
Little handpainted people left in London to fend for themselves.
A lovely visual of contacts of your Twitter contacts, exploring those six degrees.
The Dunbar number gets bandied about a lot in conversations about social networks these days. Here's the original paper that shows the research behind the oft-misused term.