The reason I get all all excited about weblog clustering is that the "winner-takes-most" aspect of the log scale graph is NOT what is most interesting about weblog networks.
If it were, then the net would be like network television -- a few top broadcasters, and an infinite number of passive viewers.
It's not. The weblog network is a mesh of communities with overlapping and shifting memberships; each subcommunity has its connectors and popular voices.
When we focus on identifying the "most central node" of the network, we turn a world with multiple centers into a hierarchy.
Posted by alevin at January 4, 2003 08:15 AM