POWER LAWS AND SOCIETY ON THE EDGE
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May 6th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
How timely, I just heard the term “power law” for the first time in reading Robb’s book, striking my interest in it (I’m busy finally reading up on networks now b/c of the book). Now I learn a lot more about power laws through Hagel. Hagel’s push-pull paper is eye-opening too, he has to be the most consistently thoughtful blogger you link to. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
May 6th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
I first heard about powers laws from Von when his interests shifted from particle research to networks and the kind of cross-disciplinary research his students are doing ( he usually has semi-finalists and finalists in the Intel and Siemens competition)
Hagel’s very thoughtful – so much so I don’t mind his slow rate of posting.
nice comments at SWC lately BTW
May 6th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Thank you, I just wish I could actually visit ZP & SWC at work, where I am 75% of my time. The underway period this summer is going to be a long, blog/forum free nightmare…
But that’s what all these books in front of me are for I suppose.