11/11/2009

Intelligent Agents Adaptive Systems – centralised networks and the effects of congestion. Examples: Small World network – six degrees of separation and ordered network with a few random links. Scale Free network characterised by most nodes having very few connections but a few having many – like the www with hubs and super-hubs. Exponential network…

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LSOzA05q3I?wmode=transparent] This is the sort of scene that made me want to be able to sing well.  I loved to hear guys like Allan Jones who made this big voice while singing soft songs – the link is that he got started in a couple of Marx brothers films, much of my childhood Sunday…

I’m speaking next week at Online Information, the huge VNU information management conference and show at Olympia. I’m going to be speaking on wikis in a session on Wednesday led off by Jimbo Wales. So, nervous and unconfident about what I’m going to have to say to add to the wisdom of His Worshipful Wikipedianess?…

I'm going to take a look at what was required to do the first trip.  The idea of using these experiences to put a value on the power of my social capital is becoming more and more interesting to me.  I think this is one way into it. Lets group things under the following headings:…

Getting to Lafayette I've planned a few days rest near Lafayette LA before moving onto New Orleans – it's a kind of mid-point decompression after SXSW.  I'd really like to be there as long as I can – Thursday thru Sunday.  I misread the Amtrak timetable and thought I could leave Austin on Wednesday night…

A writing day today – had an amazing time making music in Glasgow but hadn’t quite hit my stride in getting the balance between making, resting and documenting.  Well, actually I think the balance was fine, it just meant very little documenting. I’m now a few miles out of Dundee, inland a little and towards…