miniNode

Well, it’s obviously not easy to publish myself. Neither has this proven to be de driving force I needed for my phd work. Maybe I overestimated how motivating it would be going public. Maybe it really doesn’t feel that public. Perhaps it isn’t (it very much isn’t).

I just read that an interesting article on the Guardian by Scott Rosenberg. The title was “The blog haters have barely any idea what they are raging against.” In the end he has a nice quote: “Blogs have realised that old wisecracking twist on an Andy Warhol aphorism: that, someday, everyone will be famous for 15 people.” That’s narrowcasting.

But Barabási seems to have proved that real networks don’t develop like this (of course I understand that is not what is meant by the above quote, but bear with me). Given that the blogospehere is a network, which it most certainly is, it has hubs. Hence the A-list. Hence a periphery that are occupied by many nodes, among them the mNode.

So fame will not be distributed to everyone. That is the point of it. And then even 15 fans is to much to ask. Where am I headed? I’m not sure, but I think I’m trying to convince myself I like blogging, but that reaching out to many readers still isn’t my main goal. Five would be fine. Three maybe. Hypocrisy is wonderful, especially on Fridays. Cheers!