Complexity Digest 2006.28 - 02

Jul-10-2006

Web Cast : 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS)

Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30, hosted by New England Complex Systems Institute and chaired by Yaneer Bar-Yam

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The skeleton of the studied web portal has 933 nodes. The area of the circle assigned to each node in the figure is proportional to the logarithm of the total number of visits to the corresponding web document. The widths of the links are proportional to the logarithm of the total number of times the hyperlink was used by the surfers on the portal. The central largest node corresponds to the main page origo.hu directly connected to several other highly visited sites (image and text: Phys. Rev. E 73 066132).
If you think you're reading the news, be warned that this story -- and any other on the web -- will be barely read by anyone 36 hours after it was first posted. (...) number of people who read news stories on the web decays with time in a power law, and not exponentially as commonly thought. Most news becomes old hat within a day and a half of being posted - (...) understand how information gets transferred in biological cells and social networks (...).