Seb Paquet writes about link propagation and “discovery credit”, based on William Blaze’s analysis of the way a three year-old paper about visualising social networks suddenly gained currency among highly interconnected weblogs
Clay Shirky adds an important point about the role of the social bookmarking service del.icio.us in his posting of the aforementioned paper to the group blog Many2Many
Del.icio.us – BTW – is a piece of absolute genius and one of the simplest yet most effective pieces of social software to emerge so far this year. I hope to hear Joshua Schacter talk more about this at ETCON.