Nodes and links

The web = nodes and links
Google = nodes and links
MySpace = nodes and links
LinkedIn = nodes and links
Facebook = nodes and links
Your work organization = nodes and links
Your offline life = nodes and links
The map = nodes and links
Your project plan = nodes and links
Your brain = nodes and links

What is not nodes and links?
Are the nodes different? Are the links different?

Should your brain cells avoid bad neighbourhoods to get top rankings?

Stone, scissors, paper all over the place

Saw an amazing presentation today by an experienced hacker. Internet has become an ecosystem where evolution is happening at a breakneck pace. For every solution there is a crack, for every crack there is a solution and on it goes ad infinitum. For every intended use of any solution there are several unintended - helpful, harmless or harmful.

This in itself is not new. What is new is that so many persons multitask at it - soon a significant percentage of the human brainpower.

When will the attraction of brainpower stop? Maybe it goes in the same direction as stock exchanges, at some point in time there is really very little arbitrage to be made except by automatic microsecond decisions so humans lose interest. On the other hand, human interactions form a complex marketplace of different individual desires so maybe there is no end.

Time to get started

Wow, the new found power to blast opinions without scrutiny by anybody else. I wonder whether this is why blogs are so popular. Does anybody else than immediate peers read them (who were told to)?

I guess you either tackle topics that are immediate and personal or general and philosophical. The rest has no relevance to anybody - unless you are fishing for in-links to your web site.

Not much of an initial post, but it will have to do.